A HIKER’S GUIDE TO RUDE NAMES
It’s a passage to innuendo
A HIKER has completed the “UK’s rudest walk” after trekking 326 miles from his home in Cockermouth – to Lickey End.
James Forrest, 39, undertook 11 marathons in 11 days on his innuendo-laden trip from Cumbria to Worcestershire, conquering peaks such as Great Cockup, Little Cockup and Andrew’s Knob.
He also visited woodland labelled Nanny’s Breast, Nob End nature reserve and a waterway titled Bottoms Reservoir in his pursuit of pun-filled places.
And he took in suggestively named streets such as Beaver Close, Hardicker Street, Old Butt Lane, Bell End and Number 2 Passage. James, a freelance writer, came up with the idea after his brother moved home and then challenged him to take on the epic journey.
He said: “There was a certain poetry to it, with me living in Cockermouth and my brother moving to near Lickey End – and some silly banter led to a bet that I wouldn’t do it.
“I hate losing so ended up going for it to prove my brother wrong. I might just have completed the UK’s rudest hike.”
James added that his trek, which he completed to raise money for testicular cancer charity Baggy Trousers UK, was a celebration of “British eccentricity.”