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09/03/2025
Ilkley Quarry
A popular venue due to its sheltered aspect, the Quarry can feel cold and desolate even on summer days, nevertheless it offers a range of medium and higher grade climbs which can also be easily top roped for the more intimidated. Bits of the quarry have collapsed over the years but despite this, there are some excellent climbs and an evening spent here should be rewarded with a healthy set of ticks. The crag faces northeast and doesn't get a great deal of sun, though the right-hand side wall of the quarry is the exception to this, hence its popularity.
Approach - There is a large car park (tea waggon normally in-situ) opposite the Cow and Calf pub, a short walk from the entrance to the quarry, the big buttress of the Cow and the huge boulder of the Calf. https://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/crags/ilkley_cow_and_calf-547
Adjourn to our preferred hostelry The Bar T’at in town https://www.markettowntaverns.co.uk/pub-and-bar-finder/yorkshire/bartat
