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  Leicestershire Bouldering
Memorial Crag
Jellyfish tomb

Slatey slabs located just below the Leicestershire Yeomanry Cenotaph in the north end of Bradgate Park.

Memorial Crag is a Site of Special Scientific Interest and home to many ancient Ediacaran fossils. Unfortunately the crag has been damaged by incised graffiti and the malicious removal of these geological specimens. Park and council authorities would prefer if people refrained from climbing on the crags, so as appealing as the slabs are, it may be best to look but not touch.

Parking: The closest parking is the Hunts Hill Car Park LE6 0AH. ​
​Approach: ViewRanger Map.

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Below the War Memorial there are easy-angled crags, the haunt of children trying their first scrambles. These rocks are slatey and contain the ancient Charniodiscus fossil.
- Leicestershire Climbs (1993)
The uppermost bed bears faint circular markings probably once the resting places of jellyfish.
- ​The Rocks of Bradgate, T. D. Ford (1976)​
The fossils on Memorial Crags are the most accessible Ediacarans in Charnwood. There are over 100 specimens—or were before they were damaged—including a number of genera and species identified there for the first time. ​
- R. Mason (2013)
If in the next life or the next there be
A starting of our quarrels all again,
May Fate give task of leadership to me
And let me find the souls of these dead men.
- To The Leicestershires from Crimson Stains, Arthur Newberry Choyce (1917)
To the glory of God and in memory of those gallant Leicestershire yeomen who fell in the Great War.
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  • Home
  • Where To Visit First
  • Complete Crag Index
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  • Crags By Area:
  • Bradgate Park
    • ⠀
    • Overview
    • ⠀
    • Sliding Stone Crag
    • Stable Pit
    • Wishing Stone Crag
    • Memorial Crag
  • Cademan Wood Area
    • ⠀
    • Overview
    • ⠀
    • Calvary Rock
    • Grace Dieu Boulder
    • Grimley's Rock
    • High Cademan
    • Hob's Hole
    • Pinnacle Crag
    • Poachers Rock
    • Swannymote Rock
    • Temple Hill
    • Trilobate Plantation
    • Turry Tor
    • Twentysteps
  • Markfield Area
    • ⠀
    • Altar Stones
    • Markfield Quarry
    • Old Rise Rocks
    • Old Wood
  • Mountsorrel Area
    • ⠀
    • Craig Buddon
    • Nunckley Quarry
    • Mountsorrel Crags
    • Mountsorrel Quarry
    • Rothley Brook Bridge
  • South Leicestershire
    • ⠀
    • Cosby Lodge Bridge
    • Croft Crags
    • Hockley Farm Bridge
    • Slawston Bridge
  • Whitwick Area
    • ⠀
    • Bardon Hill
    • Blackbrook Reservoir
    • Bomb Rocks
    • High Sharpley
    • High Tor
    • Ives Head
    • Morley Quarry
    • Oaks Pinnacle
    • Ratchet Hill
    • Timberwood Hill
    • Warren Hills
    • Whitwick Quarry
  • Woodhouse Eaves Area
    • ⠀
    • Beacon Hill
    • Benscliffe Wood
    • The Brand
    • Buck Hill
    • Forest Rock
    • Hangingstone Rocks
    • Not The Brand
    • The Outwoods
    • Pocketgate Quarry
    • Windmill Hill
  • ⠀
  • Not Quite Leicestershire
    • ⠀
    • Anchor Church Caves
    • Carver's Rocks
    • Finedon Slabs
    • Kettlebrook Bridge
    • Ticknall Lime Yards
    • ⠀
    • Warwickshire Climbs
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