Morley Quarry
Highballs and micro routes
Highballs and micro routes
A large former quarry turned nature reserve. The bouldering is on the right as you walk in. The shortest route is approximately 6 meters high so bring your pads.
Mike Adams' topo can be downloaded below. Info on the sport climbs can be found on the archived version of LeicestershireClimbs.co.uk.
| morley_quarry_mike_adams.pdf |
Parking: Park in the car park on Morley Lane, Shepshed LE12 9EU
Approach: Walk up the steps in the parking, turn left passing the green barriers to reach the quarry in a couple of minutes.
Approach: Walk up the steps in the parking, turn left passing the green barriers to reach the quarry in a couple of minutes.
Morley Quarry is situated half a mile south of Shepshed and offers new routes in the "Cornwall Shale Cliffs" vein. Although the rock is not shale you may wish that it was.
A quarry is not now looked upon merely as a source of stone; the abandoned workings may be used by climbers, as a nature reserve or even a tipping site. The implication is that the landscape no longer develops by a process of 'natural' evolution, but become part of a master plan on someone's desk.
- History of the Charnwood Forest Landscape, A. E. Squires (1981)
