Probably the Warwickshire crag with the most potential for routes (except maybe Guy's Cliffe), but that isn't saying much. The quarry dates back to the Imperial period, first appearing on an Ordnance Survey map in 1887. A 'recycling and power generation centre' (read: incinerator) is located adjacent to the quarry and burning material can be smelled (and breathed in!) when it is operating. The quarry is 80 meters long and 10 meters tall at its highest.
In 2020 Silas Feaver made the first known ascent in the quarry: Ivy Bleach HVS 5a. See the crag's entry on UKClimbing.com for more information.
Park courteously on the minor road just off Merevale Lane (GPS Coordinates). Walk up Merevale Lane and enter the quarry by ducking under the obvious opening in the fence (GPS Coordinates).
In 2020 Silas Feaver made the first known ascent in the quarry: Ivy Bleach HVS 5a. See the crag's entry on UKClimbing.com for more information.
Park courteously on the minor road just off Merevale Lane (GPS Coordinates). Walk up Merevale Lane and enter the quarry by ducking under the obvious opening in the fence (GPS Coordinates).
Gods go large in Warwickshire !
- Shakespeare in the Thrush, Norman Rowland Gale (1906)
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
- The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot (1922)