Several large soft sandstone nodules which were excavated from Napton Brickworks Quarry. Initally developed by Sid Sherborne and Niamh Gibson in 2018. Arlo Rogers added the eliminates during the Coronavirus Pandemic of 2020.
Please do not climb on the doggers after rain.
Park in the cark park on Brickyard Road (GPS Coordinates). Walk a short distance east along Brickyard Road until you see a footpath on your left (Streetview), walk up this path for two minutes and you should see the doggers on your right.
Please do not climb on the doggers after rain.
Park in the cark park on Brickyard Road (GPS Coordinates). Walk a short distance east along Brickyard Road until you see a footpath on your left (Streetview), walk up this path for two minutes and you should see the doggers on your right.
The Dog's Bollocks (f4) - On the leftmost doggers. Start start with your left hand in a jug and right on an undercut/sidepull. Slap for the top and mantel.
New Tricks (f6B) - Sit start to the Dog's Bollocks. Start with both hands on the footblock and throw to the good hold and mantel.
Dogging in the Woods (f6B+) - As for New Tricks but eliminating the jug.
Chihuahua (f3) - Sit start and mantel the low dogger sticking out of the ground.
Canine (f6B+) - Start sitting on the right of the largest dogger, lip traverse until you reach the left-hand corner of the front of the dogger where the discernible holds stop, then mantel. The reverse is the same grade.
Fresh Meat (f6C+) - Start matched on the crimp below the start of canine with iron colour rock at the back. Move leftwards out on the front of the dogger and traverse on the crimps below the top. The top of the block can not be used at all apart from for feet. Top out in the same place as canine without using top of block for hands.
New Tricks (f6B) - Sit start to the Dog's Bollocks. Start with both hands on the footblock and throw to the good hold and mantel.
Dogging in the Woods (f6B+) - As for New Tricks but eliminating the jug.
Chihuahua (f3) - Sit start and mantel the low dogger sticking out of the ground.
Canine (f6B+) - Start sitting on the right of the largest dogger, lip traverse until you reach the left-hand corner of the front of the dogger where the discernible holds stop, then mantel. The reverse is the same grade.
Fresh Meat (f6C+) - Start matched on the crimp below the start of canine with iron colour rock at the back. Move leftwards out on the front of the dogger and traverse on the crimps below the top. The top of the block can not be used at all apart from for feet. Top out in the same place as canine without using top of block for hands.
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The name [Napton-on-the-Hill] involves a duplication, as Napton itself already means a 'village on a hill'.
- Warwickshire and the Shakespeare Country, F. R. Banks (1960)
[The Shire] is in fact more or less a Warwickshire village...
- Letter 230, J. R. R. Tolkien (1955)
There was a time when bouldering was considered a trivial pursuit - at best, training for the high mountains. How things have changed! Now the smaller and more insignificant the lump of rock the better. Now there isn't a stone in existence that doesn't feature in some bouldering guide. Even the tiniest pebble can provide a serious challenge if tackled from a lying-down, upside-down, underground start.
- The Owl and the Cragrat, M. Chrysanthou and G. Stainforth (2004)