Calvary Rock
Brap Ya Mum
Brap Ya Mum
Photo by @bendandascend
Low to mid-grade bouldering on volcanic tuff. Often incorrectly called Cavalry Rock, it is named after the calvary (monumental cross) which used to sit atop it. Little Llanberis f6B+ and Crack Of Wales f6C+ are the area classics and The Welshy f7B+ is a testpiece for this rock-type.
Other blocks in this area are Hidden Wall, which from the path is obscured from view by a holly bush, and Brap Ya Mum, with its iconic fallen tree and juxtaposed eponymous graffiti.
Other blocks in this area are Hidden Wall, which from the path is obscured from view by a holly bush, and Brap Ya Mum, with its iconic fallen tree and juxtaposed eponymous graffiti.
A full guide to the area is available on CademanBouldering.com or downloaded below.
| cademan_wood_guide.pdf |
Parking: Park in the layby on Turolough Road close to its junction with Car Hill Road (52.751050, -1.360690). If the parking is full park on Gracedieu Road as for Grimley's Rock.
Approach: Walk east down the road and take the second footpath into the wood (ViewRanger Map).
Approach: Walk east down the road and take the second footpath into the wood (ViewRanger Map).
Calvary Rocks takes its name from the calvary erected there on Jan 1 1843, the day before a small school opened in Turry Log Cottage just below. The plinth of calvary is still there and the cross is in the Abbey just along the road.
The Calvary at Mount St Bernard has the distinction of being only the second in England since the Reformation. The first had been established on a rocky outcrop on De Lisle's Grace Dieu estate off Thurlough Road, near Thringstone, about a mile away. This had been surmounted with a seventeen foot high crucifix, erected by Luigi Gentili and blessed by Bishop W B Ullathorne on 1 January 1843 and which remained there for around 120 years, until being transferred to the monastery in 1963.
- Holy Cross, A. F. Robinson (1987)
This Calvary has been raised upon the Grace Dieu rocks, as a place of devout pilgrimage for the inhabitants of the parishes of Grace Dieu and Whitwhick. The Grace Dieu Rocks lift their granite heads in a variety of shapeless masses, and crown the mountainous heights of the Charnwood Forest, so famous in our national legends.
Brap ya mum
- Anon.
