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Sheffield Boulders
These pages are a community resource documenting the various artificial boulders around Sheffield. They are generally located within parks and vary in sizes and styles, some squarely aimed at young children, others for dedicated climbers and a range in between. They are free for anyone to use and make a nice alternative to the wall whenever the weather is nice or there isn't time for a trip out to the Peak District
Grades
Whilst grade discussion can be a great source of contention entertainment, there is at present no attempt nor intention to incorporate grades for described problems at all. Go and try them, if you find them easy, great, if you have to work hard to get up them even better. If you work out a new problem please document it here. Worry about grades when its on real rock, these boulders are for fun and/or training so grades are somewhat irrelevant, just try hard and enjoy.
Before delving into the topos it is worth reading how to use the topos so you can interpret them.
The Boulders
operating instructions
Various functions are available as part of the map.
mouse/touch operation
- moving by grabbing the map with a mouse-click you can move the map around
- overview map using the < button in the bottom right of the map you can expand an overview map
- zooming in and out using the + and - buttons in the top left of the map you can obtain more or less detail in the map
- switching themes or maps clicking on the ≡ icon on the right-hand side of the map you can view and select available maps and themes
- retrieving information the map may contain elements that contain more information, by clicking these a popup will show this information
- fullscreen display using the ✈ button the map can be maximized to fullscreen display, use the ✕ button to return to page display.
keyboard operation
Keyboard operation becomes available after activating the map using the tab key (the map will show a focus indicator ring).
- moving using the arrow keys you can move the map
- overview map using the + button in the bottom right of the map you can expand an overview map
- zooming in and out using the + and - buttons in the top left of the map or by using the + and - keys you can obtain more or less detail in the map
- switching themes or maps clicking on the ≡ icon on the right-hand side of the map you can view and select available maps and themes
- retrieving information the map may contain elements that contain more information, using the i key you can activate a cursor that may be moved using the arrow keys, pressing the enter will execute an information retrieval. press the i or the escape key to return to navigation mode
- fullscreen display using the ✈ button the map can be maximized to fullscreen display, use the ✕ button to return to page display.
It's possible that some of the functions or buttons describe above have been disabled by the page author or the administrator
| id | symbol | latitude | longitude | description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  |
53.360865º | -1.471382º | Heeley Boulder |
| 2 | |
53.3615301º | -1.470808º | Heeley Boulder (Sheaf) |
| 3 | |
53.36989º | -1.48410º | Cemetry Boulder (Vine Inn) |
| 4 | |
53.372084º | -1.471413º | St Mary's Boulder |
| 5 | |
53.385183º | -1.490581º | Ponderossa Boulder |
| 6 | |
53.39094º | -1.421974º | Darnall Boulder |
| 7 | |
53.403884º | -1.452545º | Osgathorpe Park, Fir Vale |
| 8 | |
53.313758º | -1.531185º | Green Oaks Park Bouldersw |
| 9 | |
53.358789º | -1.405048º | Richmond Park Boulder |
| 10 | |
53.368671º | -1.505942º | Endcliffe Park |
| 11 | |
53.396864º | -1.49421º | Langsett Cresecent Park Boulder |
| 12 | |
53.367346º | -1.430116º | Queen Mary Road Park Boulders |
| 13 | |
53.37430º | -1.49344º | Broomgrove Road Wall |
| 14 | |
53.357647º | -1.4542279º | Lichfield Road Boulder, Newfield Green |
Pictures of some of these boulders being constructed can be viewed here. Google Maps Link
Safety
You should probably read the BMC Risk and Safety article if you've never bouldered or climbed before. You probably wouldn't die, but could hurt yourself on these boulders. To this end some people bring their bouldering pads with them which makes sense since you're bouldering. Effective spotting is pretty handy too and a good place to practice.
Unfortunately some of the boulders suffer from broken glass and rocks being thrown at them so you might want to check and brush out pockets and clear the ground around where you might come off or put your pad down.
Contributing
You must be a registered member to edit the wiki (this is to reduce spam / unwanted editing). For now please email sheffieldboulder.uk@gmail.com with your desired username to obtain an account.
Please read the following pages if you wish to contribute to the problems that are documented. If you are not familiar with Dokuwiki you may find it useful to have the syntax page open in another Tab, although we use the Markdowku plugin so you can write your entries in Markdown (more people are familiar with this compared to the Dokuwiki syntax).
Other Venues
Sheffield lies east of The Peak District and as such there are a number of crags that are easy to get to, some are even within the city boundaries such as Bell Hagg, Rivelin and technically Burbage Valley. If you are interested in exploring these there is an excellent guide book from Vertebrate Publishing Peak District Bouldering.PeakBouldering.info where the Burbage North Kids Circuit is documented was a brilliant resource. Unfortunately it is no longer maintained and the site is owned by someone who wants to direct you to Yosemite instead. Fortunately the amazing archive.org has snapshots, the last useful one was taken 2022-08-15 02:51:30, it's not perfect but should be useful/use-able.
Credits
The crest of a sheep and rabbit used as a logo on this site was drawn by UKBoudlering.com user richdraws and was originally designed for use on a t-shirt.
This site is administered and maintained by sheffieldboulder.uk@gmail.com but its contents are a community effort and the information within these pages is licensed under the CC Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
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