Peak District Rigging Guide
Around the turn of the century, Crewe CPC were heavily involved in the project to replace 8mm Spit expansion anchors in Peak District caves and mines with stainless steel resin hangers. We compiled a guide book that gave rigging topos for all the worthwhile SRT trips in the Peak District and this rapidly became an essential item in any Peak District cavers, or clubs library. This guide book went through many editions as new routes were added, or existing ones altered. Profits from sales initially went to the hanger fund and in later years to DCRO.
Time moves on and we decided to transfer the rigging guide to our web site. This allows us to update the guide more quickly and gives cavers access to the latest version of each rigging topo. Derbyshire Caving Association publish rigging topos for caves that they have installed hangers in. These can be viewed and downloaded from the Peak District Caving web site. There are many more caves and routes than this and the CCPC rigging guide tries to cover as many as possible.
The complete guide and individual topos can be viewed, downloaded and printed by individual cavers, clubs and those carrying out caving on a professional basis. Copyright for the guides and rigging topos remains with Crewe Climbing and Potholing Club. Selling topos and guides downloaded from the web site is prohibited.
The topos are divided in to regions based on Peak District geographical watersheds and then alphabetically by cave. The scheme is the same as that used in the Caves of the Peak District (2010) guide book and the Peak District Caving web site. These regions are shown in the menu to the left, or the top of the page and allow easy navigation around the guide. If you are not sure what region a cave is in, there is an index, sorted alphabetically by cave name. The CCPC Home navigation button takes you to the main Crewe CPC site.
The following information and links are provided:
Between them, these sources of information should provide the knowledge you'll need to plan a successful trip. Happy Caving!
Download the complete guide in pdf format, ready to view, or print. (3.5MB). Alternatively, view, or download individual pages below.
| Edition | Date | Changes |
|---|---|---|
| 12.2 | 16-2-2020 | Addition of George Cooper's Aven rigging topo. Update to Victoria Aven topo. QR Codes added to all the topos. These provide direct links to the peakdistrictcaving.info web page for that entrance. Allows you to quickly find access and location information from a paper rigging guide by pointing your smartphone camera at the QR Code. Print the entire guide to update from any previous issue. |
| 12.1 | 12-1-2020 | Level 7 / Hope Shaft topo grid references removed. Hope Shaft reference was incorrect. More accurate locations are now in peakdistrictcaving.info. Replace topo (page 40) and front cover. |
| 12.0 | 8-1-2020 | The first edition to be published on-line |
If you discover a problem with a rigging topo, or any of the links here, then please let us know by filling in the feedback form below:
Ralph Johnson hand drilling for a resin anchor in Maskhill Mine 28/8/1995. Photo © Steve Knox.
The photos at the top of the page are in Victoria Aven in Peak Cavern and were taken by Grace Chu 2/2/2020.
