The Outwoods
Highball slatey slabs
Highball slatey slabs
Highball slabby boulder problems and micro-routes between 6 and 9 meters. The crag faces north which makes it ideal in hot summer weather, but also slow drying and greasy in winter. Routes will need a good scrub on the first visit after winter.
The oak tree in the middle of the crag has sadly now been felled.
The oak tree in the middle of the crag has sadly now been felled.
Mike Adams' topo can be downloaded below. More info can be found on the online version of the old Leicestershire Climbs guidebook.
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Parking: Park on Woodouse Lane (52.742264, -1.244222).
Approach: Follow the footpath through the woods. Once you reach the western edge the crag will be visible on your right.
Approach: Follow the footpath through the woods. Once you reach the western edge the crag will be visible on your right.
Climbing in the Outwoods by Jo Sheppard
Here and there we meet with a few venerable oaks, which doubtless formed part of the ancient forest; and which possibly "chronicle upon their furrowed trunks ages before the conquest." Such vestiges are now to be found only in a few spots, as Bradgate Park, the neighbourhood of Charley, the borders of the Outwoods, especially in the lane from Nanpantan to Pocket-gate, and perhaps in White Horse Wood.
- A Companion to Charnwood Forest, J. Spanton (1868)
The names of Woodhouse, Woodthorpe, the Outwoods, Timberwood hills and Charnwood, are all plainly indications of a period when the Forest was clothed with wood. Leland states that, in his time, (about 1550) this Forest "hadde plentye of woode."
- A Concise History of the Cistercian Order, a Cistercian monk (1852)
For there is hope for a tree,
if it be cut down, that it will sprout again,
and that its shoots will not cease.
Though its root grow old in the earth,
and its stump die in the soil,
yet at the scent of water it will bud
and put out branches like a young plant.
