This mammoth ticklist is based on the eponymous guidebook by Mr. Ashton. It actually contains around 350 routes as the book "could more accurately have been titled '100 Classic Buttresses, Crags and Other More-or-less Definable Groups of Gritsone Climbs'". But I think that has less of a ring to it.
From well-polished classics to obscure clefts high on the bleakest of moors, there's a lifetime's worth of wrestling with the rough tough stuff to go at here. Expect to spend a lot of time embroiled in the lost dark art of chimneying...
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Map of routes in this ticklist
Note: Only showing summits, scrambles, winter routes, and low grade climbs
Distribution of grades
Top 12 photos of this hilllist
Embankment 2
In condition? Leaving the axes at home for a winter ascent of Embankment 2...the way it should be done.
© Alex Messenger
Gargoyle Flake
Ruby about to latch the top holds on the atmospheric Gargoyle Flake
© http://Climbers.net
Gargoyle Flake
Cardiff University Mountaineering Club enjoying the autumn sunshine
© David Maddison
The File
The File, Sunset Solo
© Dan Arkle
Wall End Slab
Wall End Slab at Stanage. Mike James (aged 20, 1955), Alan James (aged 20, 1984), Sam James-Louwerse (aged 24, 2021)
© Alan James - UKC and UKH
Gargoyle Flake
Gargoyle Flake, VS 4c. Bamford.
© stuart100
Sunset Slab
Sunset slab sport
© Ollie B
Gargoyle Flake
Cardiff University Mountaineering Club enjoying the autumn sunshine
© David Maddison
Matinee
© Jon Read
Gargoyle Flake
Yet another Gargoyle Flake photo
© Liam Brown
Gargoyle Flake
Franco soloing Gargoyle Flake
© cider nut
Great Western
Stu enjoying a fine summer solo on Almscliff's classic HVS, Great Western.
© Simon Richardson