The trail is about 3 ½ miles long, the majority on public footpaths, apart from the last couple of hundred metres from Thiefhole back to the village.
Please take care with children and dogs once on the road.
It can be quite muddy in places so please wear appropriate footwear.
The trail which is designed for both children and adults consists of 13 caches and a bonus.
Some of the caches are clippy boxes containing “treasure” and information about different pigs and some of them are more devious micro type caches.
The Pig (not the piglet ones) caches contain a clue to the coordinates of the bonus cache. You need to look at the poem carefully noting a word that is different and the related letter on the card. The number of the cache is irrelevant. .
Please make a note of that information.
Please replace the caches exactly as you found them.
Street side parking.
General Information about pigs
Pigs are intelligent animals.
Like humans, pigs are omnivores, meaning they eat both plants and other animals.
A pig’s snout is an important tool for finding food in the ground and sensing the world around them.
Pigs have an excellent sense of smell.
There are around 2 billion pigs in the world.
Humans farm pigs for meat such as pork, bacon and ham.
Some people like to keep pigs as pets.
Wild pigs (boar) are often hunted in the wild.
In some areas of the world, wild boars are the main source of food for tigers.
Relative to their body size, pigs have small lungs.
The Large Black
With its lop ears and long, deep body, the Large Black is Britain's only all-black pig. Extremely docile, and very hardy, it is ideally suited to simple outdoor systems. These characteristics, coupled with its black skin, make the Large Black ideal for a wide range of climatic conditions. In fact, by 1935, pigs of this breed had been exported to well over 30 countries.
The breed originates from the Old English Hog established in the 16th and 17th centuries..
In the early part of the 20th Century, Large Blacks were widely distributed throughout the country and were frequently crossed with Large Whites and Middle Whites to produce bacon and pork pigs.
A change in demand by the meat trade and a developing prejudice against coloured pigs led to a severe decline in numbers throughout the 1960's.Today Large Blacks can be found throughout the British Isles, mainly in small herds, some of which were established well before World War II.