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Western Grit  

by Chris Craggs and Alan James
Published April 2009
Price - £21.95 - -

The book is a new edition of the award-winning Western Grit guidebook and is a complete re-working of the popular 2003 publication with a completely new set of crag photos, lots of tweaks and improvements to grades and descriptions, and all presented in the new lavish colour format of the recent Lofoten and El Chorro guides.

The crags covered are similar to the last edition with a few new buttresses and the less cramped coverage contributing an extra 100 pages to the book. The complete list is below but it ranges from the popular Staffordshire gritstone edges of the Roaches, Hen Cloud and Ramshaw up onto the remote Kinder and Bleaklow moorland crags. Also contained are the superb Chew Valley edges, the best of the Lancashire crags and the fine sandstone buttresses on Merseyside of Helsby, Pex Hill and Frodsham.

Format - In total the book covers over 35 different crags using large full page photo-topos. There are over 60 excellent action shots and loads of crag layout maps, tables, graded lists, route symbols and all the other features you have come to expect from ROCKFAX guidebooks.

Crags Included

The links take you to the correct entry in the Rockfax Route Database.

Staffordshire
The Roaches, Hen Cloud, Ramshaw, Newstones, Baldstones

Windgather Area
Windgather, Castle Naze, New Mills Tor

Kinder
Kinder South, Kinder North, Kinder Downfall

Bleaklow and Longdendale
Shining Clough, Laddow, Tintwistle Knarr, Hobson Moor

Chew Valley
Wimberry, Wilderness Rocks, Dovestones Edge, Ravenstones, Standing Stones, Upperwood Quarry, Alderman, Running Hill Pits, Den Lane

Lancashire
Denham, Anglezarke, Wilton 1, 2 and 3, Brownstones, Egerton Quarry, Cadshaw Castle Rocks, Summit Quarry, Blackstone Edge, Cow's Mouth Quarry

Cheshire
Helsby, Frodsham, Pex Hill

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Wilton 1   by Chris Craggs Published - March 2009 (version 1.00) Price - FREE - A sample chapter from the new Western Grit (2009) covering Wilton 1 in Lancashire. This quarry has now been purchased by the BMC securing access into the future. Hopefully more people will now visit to test themselves against the great routes found in this quarry. -

Western Grit 2003   by Chris Craggs and Alan James Published - June 2003 The award-winning book to the superb climbing on the Western Gritstone edges. Now replaced by the 2009 edition. - -