Tintern Quarry

Coordinates: 51°40′46″N 2°39′29″W / 51.6794°N 2.6581°W / 51.6794; -2.6581

Tintern Quarry was a quarry in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England. It was served by the Wye Valley Railway from 1876 until it closed 1981.[1] The quarry was on the opposite side of the River Wye from the village of Tintern.

It is now used, unofficially, as a rock-climbing venue with many climbs on the more solid rock on its many terraces.[2] A Climbers Club Guide, Lower Wye Valley, describes the climbing at the quarry.

References

  1. B. M. Handley and R. Dingwall, The Wye Valley Railway and the Coleford Branch, 1982, ISBN 0-85361-530-6
  2. http://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/crag.php?id=52. Missing or empty |title= (help)


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