SOUTH WEST ENGLAND CLIMBING GUIDE BOOKS

Nearly all the guides to this area are published by the Climbers' Club and new routes can be reported at http://www.climbers-club.co.uk/newroutes.html.

Sally Baxendale on the airy pinnacles of Commando Ridge (D) at Bosigran - an "alpine" route above the sea!

NB Postage!: Due to the low mark up on books, maps, videos and DVDs we have had to charge a contribution towards UK postage on most of these items. This charge is 50p on very light books, £1 on most club style guides and DVDs, £2 on Rockfax and similar size guides and £3 for bigger books. These charges are waived for orders totalling over £60 and for Priority Orders. Overseas orders will be charged at cost.

An excellent selection of routes from all over the South West - by Pat Littlejohn. Card covered 2002 reprint. Black and white with a few colour photos. 288 pages.

Sorry - out of print. New edition due Spring 2008.

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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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Wynd cliff, Wintours Leap, Ban-Y-Gor Rocks, Tintern Quarry, and Shorn Cliff, but NOT Symonds Yat.

By a cast of thousands, edited by John Wilson. An excellent looking guide with colour everywhere with stacks of colour photo-topos and action shots, plastic cover, marker ribbon, 432 pages.

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The bit that got left out of the Wye Valley Guide. Also covers Huntsham Crags and Near Hearkening Rock. By Simon Cardy, Nigel Coe, Gordon Jenkin, Roger Lanchbury, Dave Viggers, and John Wilson. Black and white diagrams, colour action shots, hardback, 128 pages.

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Yucky looking green boulders and mossy craglets lurk deep in the untracked woodlands of the Wye Valley. Amazingly some people go climbing on them, and one of them, Martin Crocker no less, has actually written a guidebook to them. Never has such a collection of vegetated cragshots ever previouly been assembled in one volume - just hope that they aren't all SSSIs! Covers such viridian wonders as the verdant Huntsham Crags, perenial-encumbered Penyard Park East, and the no doubt aptly named Knacker's Hole. In glorious full colour (though it might have been better done in black and white). Plastic cover, marker ribbon, 184 pages.

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Polished and/or loose limestone horrors! Lots of inspiring colour photos and black & white photo diagrams. By Martin Crocker. 720 pages in two volumes within a plastic over-cover.

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Desert Island granite seacliff climbs - a must.

The Climbers Club has a 2005 Supplement to the Lundy Guide downloadable in pdf format.

Out of print - new edition due May 2008.

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Just Baggy Point but filled a gap. Lots of grey and white photo-topos plus descriptions and slim enough to tuck down the front of your shorts without anybody noticing.

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Sorry - out of print. 

The bit between the Avon and Cheddar and North Devon and Cornwall guides. A new guide to this area is in preparation - allegedly. Meanwhile there is an on-line climbing guide at Exmoor Coast Climbing 

A guide to some excellent seacliff climbing on the North Devon and Cornwall coast to the north of Bosigran, starting at Baggy Point and working southwards to Carn Gowla, taking in Pentire Head and Blackchurch on the way as well as much more. By David Hope and Brian Wilkinson. Plastic cover, black and white photo topos, colour photos, marker ribbon, 368 pages.

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Combined two volume guide to Bosigran Chairladder, the Lizzard and surrounding areas.

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Sean Hawken's definitive guide to a little visited area.

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Just Cornwall - but lots of it! Sorry - out of print.

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Granite Tors and Berry Head - amongst other things.

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An update for the South Devon & Dartmoor detailing all the new routes, deep water solos, and many boulder problems done since 1995. Compiled by Nick White. Black and white photos and a few diagrams. Card cover, 96 pages.

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Deep water soloing in deepest Dorset.

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Make a splash with this inspiring guide to the world of deep water soloing by Mike Robertson. The guide covers the UK, Europe and a few selected venues around the world. The first 200 pages cover the UK (Swanage, Lulworth, Portland, Devon, Cornwall, Pembroke, Scotland and other parts of the UK), and then Portugal, Costa Blanca and Mallorca get 80 pages of detailed coverage. Full colour photo topos and route descriptions. French grades and deep water "S" grades are included. Card cover, 320 pages - not one to tuck down your T-shirt!

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A comprehensive two volume guide covering modern bolted climbs at Portland, superbly serious trad climbs at Swanage and such esoterica as the Isle of Wight.

Out of print - new edition due end of ...! 

The Swanage section of the Swanage & Portland guide reprinted in a card cover and without photos. Also covers Old Harry Rocks, The Agglestone and The Isle of White. By Nigel Coe. 309 pages.

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The nearest we have in Britain to bolted Calpe limestone is - Portland. And this is the guide. Also covers deep water soloing around Lulworth Cove, plus Swanage (selected climbs). In addition the premier sport climbing venues of Ansty's Cove and Torbryan Quarry in Devon are tacked on at the end. The usual slick Rockfax job oozing with clear colour photo topos and rock star glamour. By Mark Glaister and Pete Oxley. Card cover, 320 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.

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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