About

Apologies, this site is not yet complete but due to some hosting issues with our previous provider we’ve had to switch over earlier than planned. Some guides are not migrated to the new versions, one is missing and the maps are rudimentary at best, these issues will all be sorted out in the next couple of weeks, please bear with us.

This web site holds local climbing information for the area around Huddersfield, in Kirklees West Yorkshire, currently it covers four of the larger venues and six smaller ones with some limited detail and example problems from the other venues.

The ongoing task is to expand this coverage to all the other crags in the area.

Constructive comment is always welcome.
Any additional information on existing and new venues will be gratefully received and can be added to the site, see the Contact page from the main menu.

Site Sponsorship

Kirklees Climbing is sponsored by The Shoe Shed

Grades

On this site we use the Fontainebleau system for grading boulder problems.

This is done for a number of reasons, the main one being that for venues with the majority of problems in the low grades the Font system works better and is clearer than the V grade system.

Any routes on the guides will be graded using the UK adjective grade and technical grade.

Credits

Resources such as this website depend on the time, expertise and assistance of various contributors.

A debt of gratitude is owed to Carl Dawson for his work on the original Kirklees Climbing Website, his information, photographs, guides and detailed topos for Holmfirth Cliff and Netherton Edge. Without his hard work this site simply would not exist. Thank you Carl.

Thanks also to anyone else who supplied photographs, information and local knowledge that assisted with the development of this website, all the guidebook authors and people who have documented climbing and bouldering in the Kirklees area over the years not least Paul Perkins whose Climbing and Bouldering Guide to Huddersfield (2002) provided a wealth of information.