Carved out of the compact granite of Bodmin Moor, Cheesewring Quarry provides a good spread of tough trad and sport pitches. The strange gravity-defying Cheesewring itself peers down over the edge of the quarry, taking in the view of the walls that for the first time visitor can be a bit of a revelation, being both extensive and up to around 30m in height. The style of the climbing is often very specific, the nature of the quarried rock giving little in the way of intermediate holds that might take the sting out of the moves. As a consequence the climbing feels tougher than that on the natural granite in the region.