Kirklees Area
This map shows the locations of the climbing venues in the Kirklees area. Green icons show venues with guides on this site. Red icons show venues with no full guide but there may be some details.
Crags covered by Kirklees Climbing
Currently the Kirklees Climbing website covers in detail the following crags:
- Buckstones
- Crosland Moor Quarry
- Holmfirth Cliff
- Honley Old Wood
- Lindley Moor Edge aka Lindley Moor Quarry or Wappy Spring
- Longwood Tower Quarry
- Netherton Edge
- Piper Stones – aka Shooters Nab Boulders
- Standedge
Other Crags
The crags below are not covered in any real detail on this site but there is location information and some of the crag pages have details on one or more featured problems or routes that might tempt you into making a visit. Most of them will be covered at some point, in particular West Nab for which the guide is coming in the next few months.
- Honley Quarry
- Longwood Edge
- Nab End Quarry
- Pule Hill
- Shooters Nab
- West Nab
- Worlow Quarry
Published Guidebooks
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 Volume 2 of the new YMC Yorkshire Gritstone features most of the bouldering and routes at Cliff in more detail, but not as much detail as here of course. Niall Grimes’ country wide guide – Boulder Britain gives a taster of the crag showing some problems on the first few buttresses.
Eight small crags in the area have also been described, and in more detail, in a locally-produced booklet, the Climbing and Bouldering Guide to Huddersfield, by Paul Perkins and James Barker (1998). This was been revised and updated by Paul in 2002, copies are like gold dust these days.
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, is is also described in the BMC’s selective volume On Peak Rock by Carl Dawson (1993).
Other small quarries and the much bigger Shooter’s Nab quarry can be found in the same volume.
To the north, in nearby Calderdale, 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 afore mentioned hefty Yorkshire Gritstone by Dave Musgrove/Yorkshire Mountaineering Club (1998).