Northumbrian Climbing Guide

Grid Ref: NZ034916 Aspect: W
Altitude: 267 mtrs Walk in: 3 mins Bouldering quality: *

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From Rothley Crossroads on the B6342, go west towards Hexham/Elsdon for a couple of hudred yards and then turn right up a gated single track road. Keep going up this road for 2km until you reach the car park for Greenleighton Quarry. A right of way to Greenleighton Moor leaves the car park at a gate near where you came in. Follow this and the Old Quarry soon comes into view on the right.

General:

A misfit in Northumberland - 250 metre long 5 metre high clean cut vertical limestone quarried walls. There are many problems in the simple to VS range over good landings, and they are really quite good fun. Certainly worth a visit for bouldering at up to VS.

Rock:

Great Limestone Carboniferous Dinantian(Middle Limestone Group)
Rather better than it looks, but check for loose blocks on the finishes.

Routes/Bouldering:

Routes:

None, unless you count 5 metre walls as routes, in which case there is no bouldering.

Problems:

Many low grade wall problems, probably not worth recording as they are all very much of a sameness. Just get out there and have fun.

Other interesting stuff:

The climbing is on a 19th Century quarry, the large quarry just over the top is an SSSI on account of the fossils.

History:

The crag has never been a secret, but no one has ever owned up to climbing on it until 2004 when John Dalrymple & Steve Gray had a bumble around.