Mountain fairies ▲
The Cheese Well is high on Minch Moor, on the Southern Upland Way. Leave cash gifts here to avoid the fairies pinching your tent pegs in the night.
Schiehallion is the Fairy Hill of the Caledonians. Any Gaelic place name with ‘shee’ probably refers to the Wee People.
Avoid the Fairy Pools on Skye – not because of being snatched away into Faerie Land, but because it’s an overcrowded Instagram hotspot.
The Gwyllion, a race of unhelpful mountain fairies, haunt the Black Mountain in south Wales. Trust your GPS rather than route hints from small, cloaked hillwalkers.
The Grey Man’s Path is a surprising slot canyon, caused by a spectre-giant which cursed and split open the dolerite seacliffs of Fair Head on Antrim’s Causeway Coast.
The Queen of the Fairies lives inside Eildon Hill near Melrose.