West Country Climbs

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Author Mark Glaister
Published Rockfax (2010)
ISBN 978-1-873341-37-7

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West Country Climbs is a major Rockfax guide to one of the UK’s most celebrated, sunny and diverse climbing regions. The book is fashioned in Rockfax’s award-winning layout and design, and copiously illustrated with action photographs of the climbs and cliffs that reflect the quality and variety of climbing experiences to be had on offer in the UK’s most popular holiday destination - the West Country.

This is a selected route and buttress guidebook which covers the best 900 routes from the crags listed below.

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Crags covered by this Guide
Avon crags # climbs Rocktype Faces
Avon Gorge (Main Area) 295 Limestone W
Avon Gorge (Sea Walls Area) 448 Limestone SW
Avon Gorge (Suspension Bridge Area) 227 Limestone W
Portishead Quarry 93 Limestone SE
Cornwall crags # climbs Rocktype Faces
Bass Point 86 Mica schist W
Bosigran 170 Granite W
Bosigran Ridge Area 29 Granite W
Carn Barra 152 Granite SW
Carn Gowla 167 Greenstone W
Carn Lês Boel Area 54 Granite S
Cheesewring Quarry 189 Granite S
Coastguard Cliffs 50 Mica schist SE
Compass Point (Bude) 67 Culm S
Cribba Head 38 Granite SW
Devil's Jump 5 Granite S
Doyden Point 14 Pillow lava W
Fox Promontory 45 Granite SW
Great Zawn 50 Granite W
Gull Rock - Marsland 52 Culm W
Gurnard's Head 39 Greenstone W
Kenidjack Cliffs 47 Killas slate SE
Lands End 183 Granite W
Lower Sharpnose Point 103 Culm ?
Oldwalls' Point 9 Culm N
Pen Olver 80 Amphibiolite & S SW
Pentire Point 147 Pillow lava N
Pordenack Point Area 83 Granite SW
Porthgwarra Buttress and Hella Point 39 Granite S
Robin's Rocks 19 Greenstone NW
Roche Rock 76 Granite ?
Sennen 181 Granite W
St. Loy Cliff 75 Granite S
Tater-du 114 Greenstone S
Tintagel Head 25 Volcanic tuff W
Trewavas 147 Granite S
Vessacks West 28 Granite SW
Vicarage Cliff 66 Culm W
Zawn Duel and Carn Gloose Area 27 Killas slate NW
Zawn Kellys Area 28 Granite W
Zennor Cliff 40 Killas slate W
Devon crags # climbs Rocktype Faces
Anstey's Cove 232 Limestone S
Baggy Point 187 Culm SW
Bench Tor 48 Granite all
Berry Head - Coastguard Cliffs 184 Limestone S
Berry Head - The Old Redoubt 132 Limestone E
Blackchurch 45 Culm NW
Chudleigh Rocks - South Face 221 Limestone S
Daddyhole Main Cliff 54 Limestone E
Dyers Lookout 51 Culm W
Haytor 77 Granite all
Hound Tor 325 Granite all
Long Quarry Point 102 Limestone E
Meadfoot Quarry 26 Limestone SE
Screda Point 42 Culm S
Sheeps Tor 43 Granite all
Smoothlands 45 Culm NW
Spekes Mill Mouth and Brownspear Point 52 Culm N
The Dewerstone 164 Granite S
Torbryan Quarry 46 Limestone W
Dorset crags # climbs Rocktype Faces
Blackers Hole 82 Limestone S
Blacknor North 131 Limestone W
Blacknor South 83 Limestone W
Boulder Ruckle 291 Limestone S
Coastguard North 60 Limestone W
Fisherman's Ledge 134 Limestone S
Subluminal and Lighthouse Cliff 136 Limestone S
The Cuttings 176 Limestone SE
The Promenade 150 Limestone S
Wallsend South 136 Limestone W
Somerset crags # climbs Rocktype Faces
Brean Down 106 Limestone S
Split Rock (Milton Hill Quarry) 45 Limestone NW
Uphill Quarry 63 Limestone W

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