Horseshoe Quarry was originally known as Furness Quarry; it was nicknamed Horseshoe-shaped Quarry by the first climbers to investigate the area. In the early 1980s, the Main Wall first attracted climbers' attention. Chris Jackson and friends put up Legal Action, an E4 protected by some spaced pegs. Other climbers came to look, added routes and it became known as a good spot for sheltered winter sport. Gradually the routes spread out, often on rock of dubious quality, but providing low and mid-grade sport routes, for which the demand was huge.Since these early days Horseshoe has established itself as arguably the most popular limestone crag in the Peak District. It is rare to drive past the parking and for there not to be a car there. The main reason for this is the number of low-to-mid-grade sport routes that are easy to reach and often in condition throughout the year.
Order | Climb | Buttress | Stars | Grade |
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1 |
Pig in a Poke | South Bay | 5a | |
2 |
Bad Boys Ink | South Bay | 6a | |
3 |
Unruly Behaviour | South Bay | 6a+ | |
4 |
Treatment | South Bay | 6b | |
5 |
Therapy | South Bay | 1 | 6b+ |
6 |
Porgi Amor | South Bay | 1 | 6a+ |
7 |
Foreign Tongues | South Bay | 6a | |
8 |
Gouranga | South Bay | 1 | 6c |
9 |
You Crack Me Up | South Bay | E1 5b | |
10 |
MiniGrip | South Bay | 7a+ | |
11 |
Unhung | South Bay | 6a+ | |
12 |
The Fire Hang | South Bay | 6b | |
13 |
Hang Fire | South Bay | 6a | |
14 |
The Gobbler | South Bay | 5c | |
15 |
Christmas Presence | South Bay | 6c+ | |
1 |
Nine Eleven | Heart To Heart Wall | 6a | |
2 |
Seven Eleven | Heart To Heart Wall | 6b | |
3 |
Tors Colon | Heart To Heart Wall | 6c+ | |
4 |
Vent Your Spleen | Heart To Heart Wall | 1 | 7b+ |
5 |
Heart to Heart | Heart To Heart Wall | 1 | E4 6a |
6 |
Sliver | Heart To Heart Wall | 1 | 6c+ |
7 |
Stomach Pump | Heart To Heart Wall | 7b | |
8 |
Skin Flint | Heart To Heart Wall | 6b+ | |
9 |
The Blood Bank | Heart To Heart Wall | 6b | |
10 |
There Will Be Blood | Heart To Heart Wall | 6b | |
1 |
Sharing Best Practice | Chocolate Blancmange Wall | 6a+ | |
2 |
Barney Rubble | Chocolate Blancmange Wall | 5c | |
3 |
Chauvi's Slab | Chocolate Blancmange Wall | 5c | |
4 |
Still Nacht | Chocolate Blancmange Wall | 5b | |
5 |
Trog | Chocolate Blancmange Wall | 5a | |
6 |
Neanderthal | Chocolate Blancmange Wall | 1 | 5a |
7 |
Men at Work | Chocolate Blancmange Wall | 1 | 5a |
8 |
The Quarrymen | Chocolate Blancmange Wall | 1 | 5c |
9 |
Excavator | Chocolate Blancmange Wall | 1 | 5c |
10 |
Slab Cake | Chocolate Blancmange Wall | 1 | 4c |
11 |
Spare Rib | Chocolate Blancmange Wall | 5a | |
12 |
The Cake Walk | Chocolate Blancmange Wall | 4b | |
13 |
Christmas Pud | Chocolate Blancmange Wall | 4c | |
14 |
Sago Slab | Chocolate Blancmange Wall | 4a | |
15 |
Dream Topping | Chocolate Blancmange Wall | 4c | |
1 |
Out of Africa | Left Wall | 6b+ | |
2 |
Madagascar | Left Wall | 1 | 6b |
3 |
Bird Island | Left Wall | 1 | 6a |
4 |
Seychelles | Left Wall | 6b | |
5 |
Rainbow Warrior | Left Wall | 1 | 6c |
6 |
Weakend Warrior | Left Wall | 6b | |
7 |
Sam in Your Eye | Left Wall | 6a+ | |
8 |
During the War | Left Wall | 1 | 6a+ |
9 |
Before the War | Left Wall | 5a | |
10 |
Sahara | Left Wall | 6b+ | |
11 |
Union Jack | Left Wall | 5a | |
12 |
African't | Left Wall | 6b+ | |
13 |
Desperate Dan | Left Wall | 6b | |
14 |
Fine and Dandy | Left Wall | 6b | |
15 |
African | Left Wall | 6a+ | |
16 |
Bloodguard | Left Wall | 6c+ | |
17 |
Grab Your Mandrakes | Left Wall | 1 | 6b |
18 |
Tirfin Mandrakes | Left Wall | 6a+ | |
19 |
Tirfin USA | Left Wall | 1 | 6a+ |
20 |
Tirf's High | Left Wall | 1 | 6a+ |
21 |
Race of the Freuds | Left Wall | 1 | 6b+ |
22 |
Peckling Fever | Left Wall | 1 | 6a |
23 |
Senter Home | Left Wall | 6a | |
24 |
Tirf'er Off | Left Wall | 1 | 6a+ |
25 |
Maillon Sunday | Left Wall | 1 | 6b |
26 |
Bootiful Bernard Matthews | Left Wall | 1 | 6b |
27 |
Nowt Taken Out | Left Wall | 6a+ | |
28 |
Foul's Bane | Left Wall | 1 | 6a+ |
29 |
Drool Rock Worm | Left Wall | 6b | |
30 |
Stone Throat | Left Wall | 1 | 6b |
31 |
Slay the Gray | Left Wall | 6b | |
32 |
Mr. Cellulite's Arete | Left Wall | 6a+ | |
33 |
Bandolier | Left Wall | 1 | 6a |
34 |
Underslung | Left Wall | 6b+ | |
35 |
The Little Thin Mexican Across the Border | Left Wall | 1 | 6b |
36 |
Desperate Measures | Left Wall | 6b+ | |
37 |
The Mexican takes Lexicon | Left Wall | 1 | 6a+ |
38 |
Exceeding the Speed Limit | Left Wall | 6b | |
39 |
Mind Your Head | Left Wall | 6b+ | |
40 |
Desperate Housewives | Left Wall | 6a | |
41 |
Collared | Left Wall | 1 | 6a |
42 |
Spare Rib | Left Wall | 6b | |
43 |
Eddie McStiff | Left Wall | 6a+ | |
44 |
Pelvic Thrust | Left Wall | 6b | |
45 |
The Hippy, Hippy Shakes | Left Wall | 1 | 6a+ |
46 |
Due Care and Attention | Left Wall | 6a+ | |
47 |
Any Old Iron | Left Wall | 6a+ | |
48 |
Sunday Sport | Left Wall | 1 | 6b |
49 |
Austin Powers | Left Wall | 6b | |
50 |
The Big Fat Texan on the Corner | Left Wall | 1 | 6a |
51 |
He Seems so Sumo | Left Wall | 6a | |
52 |
Olive Oil | Left Wall | 1 | 6a |
53 |
Removal Man | Left Wall | 1 | 4c |
54 |
Some Place | Left Wall | 6b | |
55 |
Sag Ponir | Left Wall | 1 | 5c |
1 |
Pale Rider | Main Wall | 1 | 6a |
2 |
Rain Dance | Main Wall | 2 | 6c |
3 |
The Colostomy Finish | Main Wall | 2 | 7a |
4 |
Physical Fizz | Main Wall | 1 | 6c+ |
5 |
School's Out | Main Wall | 2 | 6a+ |
6 |
Rotund Rooley | Main Wall | 2 | 6b |
7 |
Waves of Mutilation | Main Wall | 7a | |
8 |
First Day of Winter | Main Wall | 1 | HVS 5b |
9 |
Wall of Jericho | Main Wall | 2 | 6b |
10 |
The Leading Line | Main Wall | 1 | 6b+ |
11 |
Say it With Flowers | Main Wall | 2 | 6c |
12 |
Legal Action | Main Wall | 2 | 6c |
13 |
Run For Your Wife | Main Wall | 2 | 6c+ |
14 |
Private Prosecution | Main Wall | 3 | 6c |
15 |
Litany Against Fear | Main Wall | 2 | 6c+ |
16 |
Mega Shot | Main Wall | 1 | 7a |
17 |
Megalithic Man | Main Wall | 3 | 6b+ |
18 |
Megalithic Man Direct | Main Wall | 2 | 6c+ |
19 |
Poisonality | Main Wall | 1 | 7a |
20 |
An Ancient Rhythm | Main Wall | 2 | 6c+ |
21 |
Ancient Man | Main Wall | 1 | 7a+ |
22 |
Demolition Man | Main Wall | 2 | 7a |
23 |
Shot the Conformist | Main Wall | 1 | 6b+ |
24 |
Shot Yer Bolt | Main Wall | 2 | 6b+ |
25 |
Southern Man | Main Wall | 1 | 7a+ |
26 |
Nice Face, Shame about the Ledge | Main Wall | 1 | 6c |
27 |
Flat World | Main Wall | 1 | 7a+ |
28 |
Lost Monolith | Main Wall | 1 | 6b+ |
29 |
Screwy Driver | Main Wall | 6a | |
30 |
Sound As a Carp | Main Wall | 1 | 6a+ |
31 |
Harvey Wallbanger | Main Wall | 1 | 6b |
32 |
Spring Awakening | Main Wall | HVS 5a | |
1 |
Mutley stole my Route Man | Androids Area | 6b | |
2 |
Winter Fingers | Androids Area | 6b | |
3 |
Broken to Bits | Androids Area | 6c+ | |
4 |
Down to the Last | Androids Area | 6b | |
5 |
Fragmented | Androids Area | 6c | |
6 |
Mice Breaker | Androids Area | 6b+ | |
7 |
Finishing Off | Androids Area | 6b+ | |
8 |
Spectophotometry | Androids Area | E2 5c | |
9 |
50 Bolts to the Gallon | Androids Area | 6a | |
10 |
Like Ice, Like Fire | Androids Area | 1 | 6a |
11 |
Galening Crack | Androids Area | 2 | HVS 5a |
12 |
Compromise | Androids Area | E2 5b | |
13 |
Promises | Androids Area | 6a+ | |
14 |
The Rottin' Word | Androids Area | 6c | |
15 |
Decaydence | Androids Area | 1 | 6c |
16 |
Order Number 59 | Androids Area | E2 5c | |
17 |
A Right Earful | Androids Area | 1 | 6a+ |
18 |
Clean Your Mouth Out | Androids Area | 1 | 6c+ |
19 |
The Dust Bunnies | Androids Area | 1 | 7a |
20 |
Dalken Shield | Androids Area | 1 | 6b |
21 |
Hardcore! You Know the Score | Androids Area | 1 | 6b |
22 |
The Director's Cut | Androids Area | 1 | 6b |
23 |
Blade Runner | Androids Area | 1 | 6a+ |
24 |
Bruce's Bonus | Androids Area | 1 | 6b |
25 |
Androids Direct | Androids Area | E1 5b | |
26 |
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | Androids Area | 1 | E1 5b |
27 |
Rage | Androids Area | 1 | 6b |
28 |
The Running Man | Androids Area | 1 | 6b |
1 |
The Long Walk | The Toilet | 6c | |
2 |
The Dark Tower | The Toilet | 6b+ | |
3 |
The Drawing of the Three | The Toilet | 6b+ | |
4 |
Willie the Kid | The Toilet | 1 | 6a+ |
5 |
Calamity Jane | The Toilet | 6b+ | |
6 |
Jeff Garrett | The Toilet | 1 | 6a+ |
7 |
The Dogs | The Toilet | 6b | |
8 |
Derailed | The Toilet | 1 | 6a+ |
9 |
Passage of Time | The Toilet | 1 | 6b |
10 |
The Sewer | The Toilet | 6a+ | |
11 |
Latrine | The Toilet | 5a | |
12 |
Armitage | The Toilet | 6a | |
13 |
Shanks | The Toilet | 6a | |
14 |
Potty | The Toilet | 6a | |
15 |
Psycho Ceramic | The Toilet | 6a+ | |
16 |
The Bog | The Toilet | 1 | 6a |
17 |
Twyfords | The Toilet | 6a | |
18 |
The Small Room | The Toilet | 1 | 6a+ |
19 |
Thomas Crapper | The Toilet | 1 | 6a+ |
20 |
Two Loos | The Toilet | 1 | 4c |
21 |
Montezuma's Revenge | The Toilet | 6b | |
22 |
Latrec | The Toilet | 1 | 5a |
23 |
Toilet Graffiti | The Toilet | 5b | |
24 |
Toilet Humour | The Toilet | 5a | |
25 |
De Throne | The Toilet | 5a | |
26 |
On Uranus | The Toilet | 1 | 6a |
27 |
Eau de Toilette | The Toilet | 6a | |
28 |
Andrex | The Toilet | 6b | |
29 |
Easy Come, Easy Go | The Toilet | 3c | |
1 |
A Tracky Little Problem | Top Quarry | 4a | |
2 |
Tracker Bar | Top Quarry | 5c | |
3 |
A Tracky Little Bleeder | Top Quarry | 5a | |
4 |
Mickey | Top Quarry | 3a | |
5 |
Minnie | Top Quarry | 3a | |
6 |
Daffy | Top Quarry | 4a | |
7 |
Goofy | Top Quarry | 3c | |
8 |
Donald | Top Quarry | 3b | |
9 |
Pluto | Top Quarry | 3b | |
10 |
Gargle Blaster | Top Quarry | 5c | |
11 |
Uranus | Top Quarry | 3c | |
12 |
Luke Skywalker | Top Quarry | 1 | 4a |
13 |
Klingon | Top Quarry | 4a | |
14 |
Saturn's Rings | Top Quarry | 4c | |
15 |
Vogon | Top Quarry | 6a | |
16 |
Dr. Who? | Top Quarry | 1 | 6a |
17 |
Torchwood | Top Quarry | 5c | |
18 |
Beam me Across Scotty! | Top Quarry | 5a | |
19 |
Libertines | Top Quarry | 6b | |
20 |
Taking Liberties | Top Quarry | 6c+ | |
21 |
Statuesque | Top Quarry | 6a+ | |
22 |
Mucker's Wall | Top Quarry | 1 | 5c |
23 |
Citizen's Arete | Top Quarry | 1 | 5b |
24 |
Freedonia | Top Quarry | 6b | |
25 |
A Fit of Peak | Top Quarry | 6a+ | |
26 |
Drumming in a Lay-by | Top Quarry | E1 5b | |
27 |
Greedor | Top Quarry | 6b+ | |
1 |
Elizabethville | Upper Tier | 6a | |
2 |
Burundi | Upper Tier | 6b | |
3 |
Townships | Upper Tier | 6c+ | |
4 |
Victoria Falls | Upper Tier | 6b | |
5 |
Kariba | Upper Tier | 6a+ | |
6 |
Zanzibar | Upper Tier | 6b | |
7 |
Simonstone | Upper Tier | 1 | 6c+ |
8 |
Ring Thane | Upper Tier | 6c+ | |
9 |
Pretoria | Upper Tier | 6b+ | |
10 |
Mombassa | Upper Tier | 6a | |
11 |
Greenpeace | Upper Tier | 6a | |
12 |
Bird Island (P2) | Upper Tier | 1 | 6a |
13 |
Brew Thyme | Upper Tier | 6a | |
14 |
Thyme Out | Upper Tier | 6a | |
15 |
What's the Thyme | Upper Tier | 1 | 6a |
16 |
Bridge Over the River Thyme | Upper Tier | 5a | |
17 |
Bit of Spare Thyme | Upper Tier | 5c | |
18 |
Fat Betty | Upper Tier | 4c | |
19 |
Take Your Thyme | Upper Tier | 5b | |
20 |
Porridge | Upper Tier | 4c | |
21 |
Crunch yer Nuts | Upper Tier | 1 | 4b |
22 |
Soggy Bottom Boys | Upper Tier | 6b | |
23 |
Man of Constant Sorrow | Upper Tier | 5c | |
24 |
Big Rock Candy Mountain | Upper Tier | 1 | 6a |
25 |
Everett's Arete | Upper Tier | 5c | |
26 |
Repulse | Upper Tier | 5a | |
27 |
Prince of Wales | Upper Tier | 5c | |
28 |
That Old DA Look | Upper Tier | 4a | |
29 |
FOP | Upper Tier | 1 | 6a |
30 |
In the Jailhouse | Upper Tier | 6a | |
31 |
Po Lazarus | Upper Tier | 5c | |
32 |
No Way is Patience a Virtue | Upper Tier | 1 | 6b |
33 |
While the Cat's Away | Upper Tier | E3 6b | |
34 |
O Brother Where Art Thou? | Upper Tier | 1 | 6a |
35 |
Dapper Dan | Upper Tier | 1 | 6a |
36 |
Babe the Blue Axe | Upper Tier | 6a | |
37 |
The Cretan | Upper Tier | 6b+ | |
38 |
Corinthian Spirit | Upper Tier | 5c | |
39 |
Theseus-Saurus | Upper Tier | 6b+ | |
40 |
First Prize | Upper Tier | 5c | |
41 |
It's all Greek to Me | Upper Tier | 1 | 6b |
42 |
The Miner Tour | Upper Tier | 6c+ | |
43 |
Olympiakus | Upper Tier | 6c | |
44 |
Her Aklion | Upper Tier | 6c | |
45 |
Riser | Upper Tier | 5a | |
46 |
Into the Labyrinth | Upper Tier | 1 | 6a |
47 |
By Zeus | Upper Tier | 1 | 6a+ |
48 |
Spiteful Rain | Upper Tier | 1 | 5c |
49 |
Second Prize/Commiseration | Upper Tier | 1 | 5c |
50 |
Consolation | Upper Tier | 1 | 5c |
51 |
Tawny Owl Pie | Upper Tier | 5a | |
52 |
The Owl | Upper Tier | 6c | |
53 |
White Dove | Upper Tier | 1 | E1 5b |
54 |
Two Flat Whites | Upper Tier | 1 | 6b |
55 |
Nullo in Mundo Pax Sincera | Upper Tier | 6c | |
56 |
Supplementary Questions | Upper Tier | 1 | 5a |
57 |
A Liberal Smear | Upper Tier | 6c | |
58 |
No Flair Blair | Upper Tier | E3 5c | |
59 |
Labour Relations | Upper Tier | 1 | 6c+ |
60 |
Avoiding the Issue | Upper Tier | E4 6b | |
61 |
P.M.'s Question Time | Upper Tier | 1 | E3 5c |
62 |
Booker Prize | Upper Tier | 6a+ | |
63 |
Sir Pryse | Upper Tier | 1 | 6a+ |
64 |
Take It Easy | Upper Tier | 6b | |
65 |
Oy Missus | Upper Tier | 6c+ | |
66 |
Mr. Blue Sky | Upper Tier | 1 | 7a |
67 |
Esso Blue | Upper Tier | HVS 5b | |
68 |
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes | Upper Tier | 1 | 6c |
69 |
Esso Extra | Upper Tier | E1 5b | |
70 |
Shell Super | Upper Tier | 1 | 6c |
71 |
Mumble Jumble | Upper Tier | 1 | 7a |
72 |
Fargo | Upper Tier | 6a+ | |
73 |
Blue Sunday | Upper Tier | 1 | 6b |
74 |
Do It Yourself | Upper Tier | 6b+ | |
75 |
New Bolts and Yankees | Upper Tier | 6a | |
76 |
Kushti | Upper Tier | 6a+ | |
77 |
Lovely Bubbly | Upper Tier | 6c+ | |
78 |
Minnie Strikes Back | Upper Tier | 1 | 6a |
79 |
Sam and Mary | Upper Tier | 5a | |
80 |
Ma Marmalade | Upper Tier | 6a+ | |
81 |
Slam the Jam | Upper Tier | 1 | 6a |
82 |
Jam Slice | Upper Tier | 6b | |
83 |
Don't Try This at Home | Upper Tier | 6c+ | |
84 |
Red Rum | Upper Tier | 5c | |
85 |
Nijinski | Upper Tier | 1 | E2 5b |
86 |
The Party Animal | Upper Tier | 1 | 6b+ |
87 |
Café Bleu | Upper Tier | 1 | E3 6a |
88 |
Dinky Toy | Upper Tier | 1 | 6c |
89 |
Corgi Registered | Upper Tier | 6b | |
90 |
Hornby | Upper Tier | 6a+ |
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