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Together with our guidebooks this constitutes a definitive guide to climbing in Northumberland and provides the most regularly updated information about all aspects of rock-climbing in the North East area.

We're currently in the process of porting over the old guidebook database into a new platform - you can access a static copy here of the old website.

This guide compliments the definitive guides "Northumberland Climbing Guide" and "Northumberland Bouldering" published by the NMC.

• Full area map
• Sustainability
• Access
• Grades
• History
• Takeaway guides are available for all of the minor crags with recorded routes
• Additional information on the major crags
• First Ascent details, where known
• New routes and problems
• Details of some routes which never made it into the guidebooks
• Photos, including 1st ascent photos
• Up to date access information, maintained by the BMC access rep
• Camp sites
• "The crags before the climbers" - the archaeology of the crags, by Derek Cutts
• SSSI status of all crags is shown.

Northumberland Crags

Crag Name	Aspect	Routes	Average Length	PDF Guide
Aid Crag	North	17	9m
Back Bowden Doors	West	88	10m
Back Harbottle Crag
Beanley
Keb	West	1	6m
Blaewearie
Bowden Doors	West	151	9m
Rimside	South	48	2m	Download
Aid Crag	North	15
Berryhill	S	73
Bizzle Crags	E	21
Bowden Doors	West	302
Boyes Quarry	SW	6
Bromlee Lough Crag		3
Callerhues	SW	132
Cawfields Crag		2
Coe Crag	North	26
Corbies Fortress		14
Corby's Crag	West	123
Crag Lough	North	104
Crag Point		0
Cullernose Point	S	21
Curtis Crag	NW	42
Drake Stone		18
Dunsdale Crag		0
East Woodburn	SW	36
Goats Buttress		0
Goats Crag	S	104
Great Dour Crag	W	0
Great Wanney	NW	104
Hard Heugh		3
Harehope Canyon	SE	28
Harehope Quarry		1
Hareshaw Lynn		0
Heckley Crag	E	37
Henhole Crags	S	37
Housey Crags	SW	0
Howlerhirst Crag	West	29
Jack Rock	North	38
Kyloe Crag (Kyloe Out)	SW	152
Kyloe-in-the-woods (Kyloe-In)	S	169
Langlee Crags		0
Linshiels One	S	19
Linshiels Three	North	12
Little Wanney	NW	7
Maiden Chambers		7
Old Stell Crag (Simonside)		24
Padda Crag	S	46
Peel crag	North	92
Potts Buttress (Simonside)	West	27
Queens Crag	NW	103
Ratcheugh Crag	West	45
Ravens Crag	West	91
Ravensheugh Crag	North	150
Rothley Crag	West	234
Sandy Crag	West	41
Selby's Cove	SW	18
Church Rock (Simonside)	North	10
Simonside North Face	North	110
South Yardhope Crag	NW	40
The Tipalt	North	14
Thrunton Crag	NW	29
Titlington Mount		7
Tosson Hill		9
Vindolanda Quarry		26
Whiteheugh Crag	SW	20
Wolf Crag	North	41

Tyne and Wear

Crag Name	Aspect	Routes	Average Length	PDF Guide
Jesmond Dene	South & West	6	2m
Causey Quarry	North	39	15m
The Cove	East	10	2m
Cleadon Quarry	West	34	5m
Whickham Thorns	All	52	5m