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 Berkshire
Cromwell's troops when quartered in Reading, made reference to a locally bred pig renowned for its size and the quality of its bacon and ham. This turned out to be one of the earliest records of the Berkshire breed. These pigs were larger and coarser than today’s Berkshire. Their colour varied from black to sandy red; they were also sometimes spotted and had variable white patches. But, as with all coloured pig breeds, the Berkshire suffered a serious decline in popularity following World War II when the demand for leaner bacon from white-skinned pigs increased and then in the 1960s with the development of breeding companies that favoured white breeds.