To my knowledge, a geological feature not present in the English New Forest is any natural climbing site. The area is bounded on one side by the coast but the
sandstone cliffs in this region are dangerously unstable. There is some good bouldering in the south west but most significant climbing in England occurs from the centre of the country, northwards.
For the non-climber, bouldering is the art of free-climbing, typically up to 5 metres but can be a lot higher. It is a subset of climbing and as noted in
slackpacker.com it is a sport that can kill you and is not something that you should try to teach yourself. A particular danger is that if you look at some of the gallery pages on the climbing/bouldering sites you will likely find yourself hooked!
The first national park in England was the Peak District and
cressbrook.co.uk provides a good summary of its wonderful climbing sites. A little further north and you hit the Lake District; check out
LakesBloc for a site dedicated to the most up to date information on Lake District Bouldering, including over 20 freely downloadable area guides.
ukbouldering.com is a good starting point for information on the UK bouldering scene and for world wide information,
bouldering.info.
bouldering.com is a USA-centric site but provides a good worldwide link list, while
australianbouldering.com looks after the other side of the globe.
