Frontispiece page of Some Gritstone Climbs, by John Laycock, 1913.
Author
John Laycock
Language
English
Subject
Guidebooks: Rock Climbing
Publisher
Refuge Printing Department, Manchester
Publication date
1913
Publication place
United Kingdom
Media type
Print (hardcover)
Pages
116 pp (first edition)
Some Gritstone Climbs is a rock climbing guidebook written by British lawyer John Laycock (1887–1960).[1] The book's subtitle, included uniquely on the frontispiece, is Some Shorter Climbs (in Derbyshire and Elsewhere). It was published in Manchester in 1913 by the Refuge Printing Department (then an insurance company). Although focusing on rock climbing in the Peak District, it covers several adjacent cliffs outside this region, and despite its title, referring to the Millstone Grit (or gritstone) geology of many of the cliffs, it includes several cliffs consisting of other rock types, including mountain limestone and red sandstone.
It is regarded as the first-ever published rock climbing guidebook for the Peak District National Park. Some Gritstone Climbs is one of the earliest guidebooks to rock climbing in the United Kingdom: Climbing in the British Isles by Walter Parry Haskett Smith was published in 1894 and the climbing guide The Climbs on Lliwedd, by J. M. A. Thompson and A. W. Andrew, in 1909.[2]
^Todmann, Alan. "John Laycock 1887–1960 Manchester and Singapore". Genealogy.com. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
^Marsh, Terry (2010). Great Mountain Days in Snowdonia. Cicerone Press. ISBN 978-1-85284-581-0.
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