Morley Quarry
Highball, very highball.
Highball, very highball.
A large former quarry turned nature reserve. Most of the rock is too loose for climbing but the solid sections give some highball bouldering and sport climbing. 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)
