Ives Head
Blocs with a 360 degree view
Blocs with a 360 degree view
Short problems with a great view. Take some loppers for the gorse and give any cows a wide bearth.
No topo exists. Go have a muck about and pretend it's back in the day before bouldering guidebooks existed.
Parking: Park in the layby at the crossroads of Abbey Road and Iveshead Road (52.747694, -1.302000).
Approach: Head over the gate, turn right and follow the wall parallel to the road until you reach another gate, turn left up the hill here and follow the vague path until you emerge onto a field at the top of the hill containing the crag.
Approach: Head over the gate, turn right and follow the wall parallel to the road until you reach another gate, turn left up the hill here and follow the vague path until you emerge onto a field at the top of the hill containing the crag.
Short problems only but in a very pleasant situation.
- Rock Climbs in Leicestershire (1966)
Ives Head is a fine bare breezy hill with a splendid prospect all around... a walk of half a mile will take you to the top. The hill is not guarded at present by any announcement that "Trespassers will be prosecuted."
- Rambles Round Loughborough, T. R. Potter (1868)
In this parish is Ives Head, one of the prominent hills of the Forest, where was a Swanimote Court, and near which is the Hangman's Stone. A legend connected with this stone relates that a poacher resting against it with a dead deer on his back, was accidentally hanged through the deer slipping backwards.
- Charnwood Forest, J. B. Everard (1907)
