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  Leicestershire Bouldering
Rothley Brook Bridge
Concrete gem

Technical laybacking under the A6. A zero-star location but with three-star movement. The bridge's span keeps the problem permanently dry.  Rothley Brook Bridge is a good option to keep in your pocket for when you get rained off something else but don't want the day to end.

If you look into the brook you may catch a glimpse of some Signal Crayfish, an invasive species from the USA.

Back In The Saddle f6B - Layback the crack in the middle of the bridge.

Parking: Park courteously on Homefield Lane, Rothley LE7 7NE.
​Approach: Walk northwards along Loughborough Road until a footpath branches off eastwards, follow this to the bridge.

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Becoming obsessed and emotionally involved with an otherwise unremarkable stretch of concrete is undeniably daft [but] there's a purity to taking pride in something that so few people will ever recognise or understand and a joy in following in the footsteps of others.
- A. Day in Buildering Spots International,  T. Jacobs (2020)
By Rothley Brook the stangers come,
Three shadowy forms, with martial pace,
Like Phantoms of heroic race.
The clanking step, the armour's gleam
​Sounds on the margin, lights the stream.
- Excerpt of Canto I from Rothley Temple, Thomas Gisborne (1815)
​“Haul down the bridge, Sir Consul,
     With all the speed ye may;
I, with two more to help me,
     Will hold the foe in play.
In yon strait path a thousand
     May well be stopped by three.
Now who will stand on either hand,
     And keep the bridge with me?”
- Excerpt of Horatius from The Lays of Ancient Rome, Thomas Babington Macaulay (1842)
Baron Macaulay of Rothley 
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  • Home
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  • Bradgate Park
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    • ⠀
    • 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
    • Ingleberry Rock
    • 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
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    • Warwickshire Climbs
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