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Below is a list tentative list of the best areas to visit by grade. This list is not exhaustive and there are plenty of other venues in the county to explore. The best way to do this is to have browse through the crag areas in the menu, or via the Complete Crag Index, or via the map page.

No boulderer has had the full Charnwood experience until they have gone for lunch at St Joseph's Tea Room and drank some Trappist Ale brewed by the monks of Mount Saint Bernard Abbey.

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Beginner Venues (f3-f5)

• Beacon Hill
• Wishing-Stone Crag​
• Stable Pit​
• High Tor

Low Intermediate Venues (f5+-6B)

• Beacon Hill​
• Oaks Pinnacle​
• High Tor
• Bardon Hill

High Intermediate Venues (f6B+-f6C+)

• Twentysteps
• High Cademan
• Mountsorrel Crags
• Trilobate Plantation​

​Hard Venues (7A-7A+)​

• Forest Rock
• Pinnacle Crag
• High Cademan
• Trilobate Plantation

Really Hard Venues (7B-7C+)

• Forest Rock
• Markfield Quarry
• Windmill Hill
• Grimley's Rock

​Elite Venues (8A and above)

• Forest Rock
• Markfield Quarry

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The Members doubtless returned to their various homes with the pleasant thought that they had derived both pleasure and profit from their visit to ancient Charnwood.

- Report of Excursion to Chanwood Forest, W. H. Hudleston (1875)