The Kirklees area contains no major climbing sites though there are spots suitable for good bouldering plus some worthwhile short routes. And then there's the quarries.

Holmfirth Edge, with its bouldering and short routes close to the village centre, is described briefly in Jason Myres' Peak Plus - Bouldering in the Peak District Volume II (1995), an On The Edge production. Routes there can be found in the "connoisseur" section of Yorkshire Gritstone, the bumper millennium volume from Dave Musgrove/Yorkshire Mountaineering Club. The ever-so-shy Honley Quarry is equally connoisseurish. Eight small crags in the area have also been described recently, and in more detail, in a locally-produced booklet, the Climbing and Bouldering Guide to Huddersfield, by Paul Perkins and James Barker (1998). This has been revised and updated by Paul (2002).

Also in the Huddersfield area, Pule Hill has short routes which have been described for many years and these can be found in Lancashire Rock, published by the BMC but compiled by Les Aisworth and Dave Cronshaw (1999). Other small quarries and the much bigger Shooter's Nab quarry can be found in the same volume. Pule Hill is also described in the BMC's selective volume, On Peak Rock by Carl Dawson (1993).

Some of the locations on this map are clickable.

To the north, in nearby Calderdale, excellent well-established bouldering is to be found at West Vale (or Greetland Quarry) and at Woodhouse Scar at Halifax; both these are described in the excellent Rockfax volume entitled Yorkshire Gritstone Bouldering by Alan Cameron-Duff (2000). The short routes at Woodhouse are covered by the hefty Yorkshire Gritstone by Dave Musgrove/Yorkshire Mountaineering Club (1998).
To the west, only a few fast miles over the Isle of Skye (A635) road, are the crags of Chew Valley. These are covered in detail in the BMC's Moorland Gritstone: Chew Valley by Chris Hardy and Carl Dawson (1988). On Peak Rock also covers most of these crags.

On this site, there is a revised guide to bouldering at Holmfirth Edge. This may be added to in the future.
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• Holmfirth Edge Bouldering Guide
(SE 148086)
• West Nab (SE 076089)
• Honley Quarry (SE 126121)
• Netherton Edge
(SE 127125)
• Crosland Moor Quarry (SE 123156)
• Shooter's Nab (SE 065109)
• Pule Hill (SE 032108)
• Warlow Quarry (SE 307103)
• Longwood Tower Quarry (SE 113168)
• Longwood Edge (SE 104174)
• Lindley Moor Quarry (SE 102188)
• Buckstones (SE 015137)
• Standedge (SE 013102)

New information is welcome and will be added to the site

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