Limestone Guide Book
Yorkshire Limestone A Rock Climbers Guide
- Edited by Dave Musgrove
- Published by the YMC 2005
- Distributed by Cordee�
- Price £19.95
- ISBN 09515267-4-X
The definitive guide to rock climbs on limestone crags in the Craven and surrounding districts of Yorkshire. This 592 page guide contains over 3100 routes on 66 crags, including almost 600 Sports Routes (fully bolted), with colour diagrams, access maps and 68 colour photographs. Crags covered include: Blue Scar, Giggleswick Scar, Gordale Scar, Kilnsey Crag, Malham Cove, Trow Gill and Twistleton Scars.
Crag List
Updates
The YMC no longer publishes printed copies of updates to the gritstone ane limestone guidebooks. Instead additions and revisions are made available as Acrobat (PDF) downloads, which can be obtained, free of charge from the Leeds Wall web site.
BMC Access Fund
The YMC makes a donation to the BMC's Access Fund for every Guide Book purchased.
Omitted Crag Topos
For various reasons the following crags have not been included in the current guidebooks. They are all of minor importance, however for those who might be interested topos can be downloaded from the list below.
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- Caygill Scar - outside the area covered by the limestone guide.
- Grimbald Crag - climbing nolonger permitted on this crag.
- Kidstones Scar - a little visited, remote crag with scrappy routes.