Trilobate Plantation
For people who don't like walking
For people who don't like walking
Also known as Cademan Roadside, misnamed Trilobite Plantation in the old Leicestershire Climbs guidebook
The most visited section in the Cademan Wood area due to its high quality problems across the grades. Crossdresser f7A and Addams Family Values f7A+ are essential rite-of-passage climbs for all Leicestershire boulderers.
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Parking: The closest parking is next to the two gates on Warren Lane (52.7524911, -1.3562841). Do not try and Park on Turolough Road or Warren Lane if the laybys are full. If the parking is full then please park on Gracedieu Road as for Grimley's Rock, in the car park on Melrose Road as for the Grace Dieu Boulder, or in the car park on Swannymote Road as for High Cademan and Pinnacle Crag.
Approach: Please use the access gate to the east of the blocks to access them and please do not climb over the wall.
Approach: Please use the access gate to the east of the blocks to access them and please do not climb over the wall.
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At Trilobate Plantation, after it had been pointed out, in answer to an inquiry, that trilobate was not synonymous with trilobite, specimens of a very fresh and brittle porphyroid were collected.
- Excursion to Charnwood Forest, W. W. Watts (1902)
The crag at 435173 (Trilobite Plantation) is disappointing and only the part near the road gives any climbing.
