Brimham Rocks

Brimham is badass!
I lived maybe 20 or 15 minutes away from it.
If you go, get some ice cream!

I went there again this weekend – we had a wedding nearby so went home via Brimham Rocks.

I first visited there approx 25 years ago with my family and this time took my hubby and brother (who was too young to remember this from our last visit).

It is so refreshing to see a National Trust place where you are encouraged to touch and climb all over the display! I did when I was a kid.

The entry charge is £3.50 per car for up to 4 hours and there were loads of families with picnics sitting near or on the rocks and kids learning to climb relatively safe rocks.

Great for a cheap day out if you’re living or on holiday in Yorkshire. It’s also quite near Knaresborough (Mother Shipton’s cave and wishing well – with calcified hats buried inside a waterfall) and both can be done in one day.

Try to find the smartie tube , its like a hole through a rock about 10 foot long that you can crawl through

320 million years ago, a huge river washed down grit and sand from granite mountains in northern Scotland and Norway. A delta formed, covering half of Yorkshire. Increasing layers of grit and sand, along with rock crystals of feldspar and quartz, built up to form the tough sandstone known as Millstone Grit, the exposed sections of which can be seen today at Brimham Rocks.

Most of the rocks owe their bizarre shapes to erosion during and after the Devensian glaciation. For example, Idol Rock was most likely formed just after the last glaciation when the land lacked any plant cover. Here, sand-blasting at ground level wore away the softer layers of the rock producing a tiny plinth with a massive top. Freeze-thaw action on the joints and bedding planes have shaped many of the tors such as the Dancing Bear.