Stone Farm Rocks are a series of sandstone crags and a Site of Special Scientific Interest

Site of Special Scientific Interest

A Site of Special Scientific Interest is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom. SSSIs are the basic building block of site-based nature conservation legislation and most other legal nature/geological conservation designations in Great Britain are based upon...

 (under the name Stone Hill Rocks) in the county of West Sussex

West Sussex

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, England

England

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. The site consists of 8 metres (26.2 ft) high sandstone crags. The crags reveal sedimentary structures which are used to examine the deposition of minerals in relation to water depths, direction and strength.

The site is owned by the British Mountaineering Council

British Mountaineering Council

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who run it for the benefit of climbers. There are 74 identified climbs on the rocks. Bolt belays have been installed at the top of many of the climbs to reduce erosion of the site.