Blackbrook Reservoir
Clogwyn-y-Blackbrook
Clogwyn-y-Blackbrook
Also known as One Barrow Plantation
A high wall of red granite giving hard highball problems with a good landing. There is also a water-level traverse on the wall to the left of the main crag: The Bigger Splash (English 4c). The phone signal is poor here so be careful if climbing alone.
Mike Adams' topo can be downloaded below. Route descriptions can be found on the online version of the old Leicestershire Climbs guidebook.
| blackbrook_reservoir_mike_adams.pdf |
Parking: Park in one of the laybys on Charley Road (52.752205, -1.307912).
Approach: Walk down One Barrow Lane, the crag is on your right close to the water, if you reach the bridge you have gone too far.
Approach: Walk down One Barrow Lane, the crag is on your right close to the water, if you reach the bridge you have gone too far.
A fine situation at the south inlet end of the reservoir. It consists of strange red slabs and short steep bounding walls, with a number of pleasantly situated trees.
- Rock Climbs in Leicestershire (1966)
The hand of Nature is that of a fine artist in the Blackbrook Valley, where the process of denudation has given to the landscape the character of a miniature mountain gorge. The reservoir, too, completed in 1906, shows that the hand of man is not always destructive, for it adds greatly to the natural beauty of the vale.
- Charnwood Forest and its Environs, M. P. Dare (1925)
