A crag which highlights how desperate things are in Warwickshire. Pushes the boundaries of what it is actually worth making the effort to climb on. Located opposite the bus shelter close to the entrance of the Gibbet Hill Campus of the University of Warwick (GPS Coordinates).
Aesthetic of the Abysmal (4) - Start sitting using two large pockets, head right and up to solid sandstone holds, top out using the trees.
Aesthetic of the Abysmal (4) - Start sitting using two large pockets, head right and up to solid sandstone holds, top out using the trees.
At two miles is Gibbet Hill, which takes its name from a gibbet, erected in 1765, on the edge of Wainbody Wood, at the south-east corner of the road to Stoneleigh, nearly opposite to the second milestone. On this gibbet were executed, on the 17th of April, 1765, Moses Baker, a weaver, of Coventry, and Edward Drury and Robert Leslie, two dragoons belonging to Lord Pembroke’s regiment, then quartered in the city, who murdered a farmer named Thomas Edwards, close to Whoberly, near the west end of Coventry, on the 18th of March previous. The bodies of the criminals were afterwards hung in chains here. After serving as an instrument of death, the gibbet, which was studded with small nails, was, about the year 1820,. removed to a neighbouring farm, and became an auxiliary of life as the framework of a corn staddle.
- Shakespeare's Land, C. J. Ribton-Turner (1893)
Routes with vegetation also tend to be omitted, though some of the finest lines in Britain were first climbed mainly on grass.
- The Ordinary Route, Harold Drasdo (1997)
Admirably vegetated and full of charm, a choice tick for the aficionado of the abysmal.
- Route description for Generously Cut Trousers, Chee Dale from On Peak Rock (1993)
