A companion to the famous Eastern Grit book - Western Grit covers the fabulous gritstone and sandstone crags of ranging from the popular Staffordshire 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.
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
Access Issues for Western Grit - Hen Cloud Nesting (May, 2012)
Authors: Chris Craggs and Alan James
Published: April 2009
Rockfax Climbing Guide Book: Western Grit
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