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Some Gritstone Climbs, the Glossary

Some Gritstone Climbs is a rock climbing guidebook written by British lawyer John Laycock (1887–1960).^[1]

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Alderley Edge

Alderley Edge is a village and civil parish in Cheshire, England.

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Almscliffe Crag, or Almscliff Crag, also known as Great Almscliff Crag to distinguish from Little Almscliff, north west, is a Millstone Grit outcrop at the top of a small hill near the village of North Rigton, between Leeds and Harrogate in North Yorkshire, England.

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Alport Height

Alport Height is a hill near Wirksworth in Derbyshire.

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Andle Stone

The Andle Stone is a large gritstone boulder on Stanton Moor in Derbyshire.

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Beeston Castle

Beeston Castle is a former Royal castle in Beeston, Cheshire, England, perched on a rocky sandstone crag above the Cheshire Plain.

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Black Rocks (Derbyshire)

Black Rocks (or Stonnis Rocks), is a small outcrop of ashover gritstone, between Cromford and Wirksworth in Derbyshire, the Peak District, England.

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Blackstone Edge

Blackstone Edge is a gritstone escarpment at above sea level in the Pennine hills surrounded by moorland on the boundary between Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire in England.

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Brassington

Brassington is a village and civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, 16 miles north west of Derby.

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Climbing guidebook

Climbing guidebooks are used by mountaineers, alpinists, ice climbers, and rock climbers to locate, grade, and navigate climbing routes on mountains, climbing crags, or bouldering areas. Some Gritstone Climbs and climbing guidebook are climbing and mountaineering books.

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Combs Moss

Combs Moss is a plateau-topped hill between Chapel-en-le-Frith and Buxton in Derbyshire, in the Peak District. Some Gritstone Climbs and Combs Moss are Peak District.

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Combs, Derbyshire

Combs is a small village in Derbyshire, England, in the civil parish of Chapel-en-le-Frith and the Peak District National Park.

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Cromford

Cromford is a village and civil parish in Derbyshire, England, in the valley of the River Derwent between Wirksworth and Matlock.

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Crowden, Derbyshire

Crowden (also known as Crowden-in-Longdendale) is a hamlet in the High Peak borough of Derbyshire, England.

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Dovestone Reservoir

Dove Stone Reservoir lies at the convergence of the valleys of the Greenfield and Chew Brooks above the village of Greenfield, on Saddleworth Moor in Greater Manchester, England.

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Edale

Edale is a village and civil parish in the Peak District, Derbyshire, England, whose population was 353 at the 2011 Census.

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Glossop

Glossop is a market town in the borough of High Peak, Derbyshire, England, east of Manchester, north-west of Sheffield and north of Matlock.

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Grade (climbing)

Many climbing routes have a grade that reflects the technical difficulty—and in some cases the risks and commitment level—of the route.

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Gritstone

Gritstone or grit is a hard, coarse-grained, siliceous sandstone.

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Harboro' Rocks

Harboro' Rocks (or Harborough Rocks) is a dolomitic limestone hill near the village of Brassington in the Derbyshire Peak District. Some Gritstone Climbs and Harboro' Rocks are Peak District.

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Helsby

Helsby is a village, civil parish and electoral ward in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.

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John Laycock

Christopher John Laycock (1887 – 3 December 1960) was a British-born Singaporean lawyer who was the founder of one of Singapore's earliest law firms, Laycock and Ong.

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Kinder Scout

Kinder Scout is a moorland plateau and National Nature Reserve in the Dark Peak of the Derbyshire Peak District in England.

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Limestone

Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.

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Millstone Grit

Millstone Grit is the name given to any of a number of coarse-grained sandstones of Carboniferous age which occur in the British Isles.

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Mytholmroyd

Mytholmroyd (pronounced) is a large village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Hebden Royd, in the Calderdale district, in West Yorkshire, England, east of Hebden Bridge.

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Owen Glynne Jones

Portrait and signature of Owen Glynne Jones from his book ''Rock-climbing in the English Lake District'' Owen Glynne Jones (2 November 1867 – 28 August 1899) was a Welsh rock-climber and mountaineer.

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Peak District

The Peak District is an upland area in central-northern England, at the southern end of the Pennines.

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Pennine Way

The Pennine Way is a National Trail in England, with a small section in Scotland.

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Robin Hood's Stride

Robin Hood's Stride (also known as Mock Beggar's Mansion) is a rock formation on the Limestone Way in Derbyshire close to the village of Elton.

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Rock climbing

Rock climbing is a sport in which participants climb up, across, or down natural rock formations or indoor climbing walls.

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Rock climbing in the Peak District

Rock climbing is a popular activity in the Peak District; particularly on edges such as Stanage or Froggatt. Some Gritstone Climbs and Rock climbing in the Peak District are Peak District.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.

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Scafell

Scafell (or; also spelled Sca Fell, previously Scawfell) is a mountain in the Lake District region of Cumbria, England.

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Siegfried Herford

Siegfried Wedgwood Herford (1891 – 28 January 1916) was a British climber who was active in the years immediately before World War I. He and John Laycock and Stanley Jeffcoat initiated what is referred to as "gritstone climbing" in England, bouldering on large blocks at the base of the cliffs, and roping up to climb the edges and faces above.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Some_Gritstone_Climbs

Some Gritstone Climbs, the Glossary

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