PEAK DISTRICT CLIMBING GUIDE BOOKS

Steve Stout on the crux of Chequer's Buttress (HVS) at Frogatt, one of best of the gritstone edges in the English Peak District.

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A feast for the eyes. Beautifully laid out and presented. Features over 850 of the Peak District’s best routes in the lower grades and boulder problems of a rather harder nature. Over 400 of the best routes from Mod to HVS are included, together with suggestions for good E1s to try. The Peak’s best gritstone and limestone crags are covered, including Stanage, Froggatt, The Roaches, Stoney Middleton and Wildcat.

Also featured are the mid-grade sport climbing venues of Horseshoe Quarry and Harpur Hill Quarry over 50 of the best routes from F5 to F6c+. 350 of the Peak’s best gritstone boulder problems up to Font 7a are also included for the keen boulderer.

Additional features include friendly and informative advice on climbing techniques, sport climbing, multi-pitch climbing and obligatory ticklists.

The book is illustrated with clear and easy-to-use photo topos and maps, together with stunning action photography from the country’s best rock climbing photographers, including Ian Parnell, Alex Messenger, Pete O’Donovan, David Simmonite, Adam Long, Keith Sharples and Mike Robertson.

Featured crags: Birchen Edge, Burbage North, Burbage South, Cratcliffe Tor and Robin Hood's Stride, Curbar
Froggatt, Lawrencefield, Millstone, Rivelin, Stanage, Castle Naze, Hen Cloud, Kinder North, Kinder South, The Roaches, Wimberry, Windgather, Cheedale, Blackwell Halt, Harborough Rocks, Harpur Hill Quarry, Horseshoe Quarry, Staden Quarry, Stoney Middleton and Wildcat.

By Rupert Davies and Jon Barton. Card cover, 322 pages.

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"A weighty tome, full of excellent info, diagrams and alternative venues, as well as all the classics. Not one to be tucked down your T-shirt." That was what we wrote about the first edition of this excellent guide. However the reprint (having a flexible Rockfax style card cover) is much lighter and more T-shirt tuckable. It also has a useful FRCC style red ribbon for marking your place, an update on all the new E9s and 10s in the Peak, and a lovely photo of Lucy Creamer on the cover. What more could you want! 1500 routes, 416p.

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Essays, descriptions and detailed diagrams.

This popular book (which actually covers 350 routes) has long been out of print. but Steve Ashton has released an updated CD version. You can buy this direct from him at:

Steve Ashton, 43 Green Lane, Lancaster, LA1 2ES, or email steve@sacopy.co.uk.

The price in 2005 was £7.95 including post and packing. 

Essays and topo diagrams.

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Beautifully presented selection of routes from the major gritsone edges of the Eastern Peak District. Includes, Wharncliffe, Rivelin, Dovestone Tor, Bamford, Stanage, Burbage North, Higgar Tor, Burbage South, Millstone, Lawrencefield, Yarncliffe, Frogatt, Curbar, Baslow, Gardoms, Birchen, Chatsworth, Cratcliffe and Black Rocks. By Chris Craggs and Alan James. Glorious technicolour throughout with a monstrous number of photo topos and photos, card cover, 384 pages.

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Beautifully presented selection of routes from the major gritstone edges of the Western Peak District. Includes, the Roaches, Hen Cloud, Ramshaw, Windgather, Castle Naze, Kinder, Shining Clough, Laddow, Hobson Moor, Wimberry, Dovestones, Ravenstones, Standing Stones, Running Hill Pits, Wilton, Brownstones, Anglezarke, Helsby and Pex Hill. By Chris Craggs & Alan James. Card cover, 304 pages.

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Selected routes in the lower grades on the Peak District gritstone crags of Rivelin, Bamford, Stanage, Burbage North, Higgar Tor, Burbage South, Millstone, Lawrencefield, and Yarncliffe. 188 routes from M to S and 301 from HS to HVS. The usual clear and concise Rockfax style with excellent colour photo-topos but small enough to fit in your pocket at only 15cm x 10.5cm. By Chris Craggs and Alan James. Card cover, 128 pages. 

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Selected routes in the lower grades on the Peak District gritstone crags of Froggatt, Curbar, Baslow, Gardoms, Birchen, Chatsworth, Stoney Middleton, Horseshoe Quarry, Ravensdale, Harborough Rocks, High Tor, Wild Cat, Willersley and Black Rocks. 178 routes from M to S and 298 from HS to HVS. The usual clear and concise Rockfax style with excellent colour photo-topos but small enough to fit in your pocket at only 15cm x 10.5cm. By Chris Craggs and Alan James. Card cover, 128 pages. 

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A new selected guide to the best of limestone climbing in the Peak, Yorkshire and South Lakes/North Lancs areas. The usual excellent Rockfax style with lots of colour photos, topos and maps. Crags covered include:
Peak Limestone - Stoney Middleton, Horseshoe Quarry, Harpur Hill, Staden Quarry, Chee Dale Upper, Chee Dale Lower, Raven Tor, Water-cum-Jolly, Ravensdale, Taddington, Rhienstor, Aldery Cliff, Wolfscote Dale, Thor's Cave, Beeston Tor, Dove Dale, Harborough Rocks, Intake Quarry, Halldale Quarry, Pic Tor, High Tor, Wild Cat, Willersley.

Yorkshire Limestone - Trollers Gill, Loup Scar, Dib Scar, Kilnsey, Blue Scar, Yew Cogar, Malham, Gordale, Attermire, Giggleswick South, Giggleswick North, Robin Proctor's Scar, Trow Gill.

South Lakes Limestone - Scout Scar, Chapel Head Scar, Millside Scar, Humphrey Head, Trowbarrow.

By Alan James, Mark Glaister & Chris Craggs. Card cover, 384 pages.
Rockfax has a New Routes Database for Northern Limestone.

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Superbly produced new guide to the major crags, bouldering spots, climbing walls, gear shops, clubs, cafes, pubs and campsites of England and Wales (NB This is not a climbing guide as such in that routes are not described). By David Atchison-Jones. Colourful Jingo-Wobbly style, brilliant photos, soft cover, 384 pages.

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A fanastic looking new definitive guide from the Niall Grimes inspired BMC team consisting largely one suspects of Grimer himself. Brilliant photo-topos, action shots and loads of quirky quotes and other stuff, plus a comprehensive bouldering guide. Handy enought to stow in a rucksack, a reasonably tough feeling cover, 350 pages - a must have book for any climber likely to go within ten miles of the place, and even for those strange few who aren't!

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Should be subtitled the Sheffield climbing guide as it covers the outcrops immediately west of that city, including Millstone Edge, Burbage, Rivelin, Derwent Valley, Bamford and Wharncliffe. 2,200 routes and 750 boulder problems. High quality photographs, photo topos, diagrams, and interesting &/or humous quotes fill the pages. Another brilliant definitive volume from the BMC. Edited by Dave Simonite and Niall Grimes. Card cover, 343 pages.

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2004 edition by the BMC. This new definitive guide covers all the routes and many of the boulder problems on the gritstone crags of the south-western Peak District.
The Roaches, Hen Cloud, Ramshaw, Baldstones, Newstones, Windgather, Castle Naze and the Churnet Valley are all included. Over 1600 routes and 800 boulder problems.
The 300 plus pages are littered with quality photographs and photo topos. Brilliant! Edited by Dave Garnett and Niall Grimes. Card cover, 315 pages.

For your info - the cover shot is of Sam Whittaker enjoying the exposure at the lip of the roof on Paralogism E7 6c.

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North-West Peak Grit. Tameside and Lower Longdendale Quarries, North Longdendale Edges, Bleaklow, Kinder Scout, the Goyt and Sett Valleys, and the Macclesfield Area. Includes the well known crags of Laddow, Shining Clough, Kinder and lots more. Written by a cast of thousands, edited by Geoff Milburn. Card cover reprint, with no photos.

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Very Central Peak - Grit. Burbage, Higgar Tor, Millstone, Frogatt and Curbar.

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Central Peak - Grit. Chatsworth, Birchens, Gardoms, Cratcliffe and Black Rocks.

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Far North Peak - Grit. Ravenstones, Dovestones, Wimberry and quarries. Edited by Geoff Milburn. Plastic cover, 303 pages.

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Mid-grade sport climbing for all! Bolted routes on Peak District limestone with over 700 climbs (mainly F6a-F7a) on 14 crags. Covers Horseshoe Quarry, Hall Dale Quarry, Lorry Park Quarry, Slaley Brook, Intake Quarry, Devonshire Buttress, Blatant Buttress, Blackwell Halt, Crag X, Cowdale, Deep Dale, Smalldale and Harpur Hill. Another excellent looking BMC guide with lots of colour photos, maps and topos. By Gary Gibson. Card cover, 144 pages.

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Eastern Peak - Stoney Middleton and nearby - Ravensdale, Castleton and Buxton areas. Out of date but cheap. Includes all the Windy Ledge classics such as Alcasan, Scoop Wall, (and the awesome Our Father, which is one of the best E4's in the country, IMHO - note from Trev!). By a cast of thousands. Black and white diagrams, colour action photos. Plastic cover, 284 pageS

Out of Print - check out Rockfax Northern Limestone for a good section on Stoney Middleton and nearby crags. 

A massive two volume set from the BMC. 277 pages of climbing in one and 190 pages of historical information, some blotted out with stickers, in the other!

Now reduced from £15.95 to a bargain £7.00!

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High Tor, Wild Cat, Willersley and the rest - another bumper edition from the BMC? Due who knows when? though delays are possible - even likely.

 

It's here! Full colour guide to bouldering in the Peak with loads of topos and photos. Uses Font grades rather than V grades though a conversion table is provided. Contains virtually every problem above 7a, almost every good problem from 6a-6c+, and the best of the easier stuff. Covers the whole of the area except for the moorland crags of Kinder, Bleaklow and Derwent. By Rupert Davies and Jon Barton. Card cover, 350 pages.

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The 251 2000 feet plus summits in England (Lake District, Cheviots, Pennines, Dales, Peak, and Dartmoor), and 58 walks that encompass all of them. By John and Anne Nutall. Black and white drawings and maps, plastic cover, 316 pages.

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Volume 1 of this series describes the mountains in Wales and can be found in the Welsh section of this website. 

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250 runs and playspots on 170 rivers in England. Well illustrated. Published by British Canoe Union. Card cover, 334 pages.

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