Climbs 4
Rocktype Limestone
Altitude 91m a.s.l
Faces S
Crag over view © Rusty Grylls
Crag features
This crag has a 15 vertical wall that has been clean up recently with at least one route. There is also a loose overhang with some more serious climbs. This rock has been coloured by iron from in the rocks and has a nice reddish colour. The overlying Jurassic limestone gives some bouldering in the car park like area to the L of the main crag. I will upload photos of the crag soon.
Approach notes
This crag is a little hidden but can be found. You can park at the bottomof Elm Lane on the S side of the River Mells. Take the footpath heading upstream , and then the foot bridge that crosses Fordbury Water.Take the left hand path alongside this stream. The river and the train track will be on your left hand side. Follow this for 300m then find the steps that take you up to the top of the crag and what looks like a carpark(the De La Beche Unconformity) This crag is on the back of Great Elm Slab with a thin spine of rock separating the two crags.
If you find this crag on an os map particularly an older one you will see a pool where the crag is. that pool no longer exists as the soil from the train tunnel was dumped in it. The spoils also make up the path that leads to the quarried clearing above the crag(this is the De La Beche Unconformity -Where Jurassic rubs up against Carboniferous).
| I have to admit that there are far better crags near by and id only bother with this when you have exhausted the other spots. Rusty Grylls - 07/Apr/15 |
Climbs at this crag
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