National Trust launches ‘Silly Walks’ guide
The National Trust has launched a collection of online walking guides based around some of the UK’s silliest place-names.
The ten ‘Silly Walks’ have been created at places such as Kiss me Arse Steps in Cornwall and Scrubby Bottoms in Pembrokeshire.
“We’re finding that more people want to get out into the great outdoors but often need to be pointed in the right direction,” said Jo Burgon, the National Trust’s outdoors programme director.
“Part of the joy of being outdoors is having a great experience and these silly walks are designed to tap in to the British love of a real sense of humour.”
The walking guides are available to download for free and have been launched as part of a wider initiative by us to encourage the nation to get outdoors and closer to nature.
'Place-names in England and Wales are often the product of long evolution.” said Paul Savill, editor of the Journal of the English Place-Name Society, and former principal research fellow for the Society.
“Swine in East Yorkshire has nothing to do with pigs, Nasty in Hertfordshire is not a comment on the living conditions, Snoring in Norfolk has nothing to do with sleep and Trevor in Wales is not the name of a man.“
The Trust is giving away limited edition commemorative t-shirts to the first ten people who complete each walk and tweet their photograph of it as proof.