British Bigfoot?

Bigfoot - have we ever talked about the legendary anthropoid here?  I only ask because I was reading Gav Crimson's review of direct-to-DVD British Bigfoot/gangster crossover movie Wreck (2020), (while, coincidentally, half-watching a sort-of-Bigfoot movie on B-Movie TV, Demonwarp (1988), where Bigfoot turns out to be an alien), in which Gav noted the lack of a British Bigfoot history that the film makers could have drawn upon.  Now, something stirred at the back of my mind: I was sure that I had read somewhere of just such a UK Bigfoot mythology.  Indeed, a quick web search confirmed that it wasn't a false memory brought on by watching the likes of Konga (1960) or Trog (1970) too many times - they might not be Bigfoot, but giant apes and prehistoric troglodytes running amok in Britain are close enough - there really is something of a British Bigfoot tradition.  While not as well known as those ubiquitous 'big cats' that supposedly stalk the British countryside, there nevertheless have been numerous alleged sightings of a hairy ape-man type creature known variously as The Shug-Monkey, the Beast of Bolam, the Big Grey Man, the Man-Monkey, and the Wild Man of Orfor, depending upon the locale. These locales range from Cornwall to the Scottish Highlands.

Of course, one of the objections to idea of such a creature existing, undetected, in the UK is the country's lack of any equivalent to the vast forests of the North West US, or even the mountain ranges of Tibet, where its cousin the Yeti supposedly resides.  Yet, the fact that modern Britain is increasingly urbanised doesn't seem to bother the British Bigfoot, which has been spotted in the likes of Kent and Sussex, both pretty densely populated counties.  So, could such a creature exist in the UK?  I sincerely doubt it.  The same objections that undermine the existence of those 'Big Cats' apply - a lack of a suitable food supply, for one. If there really were these large predators wandering around the British countryside, then I'm pretty sure that we'd have regular reports of farmers losing large numbers of livestock.  Not only that, but we just don't have the climate for Bigfoot here - just about every Bigfoot movie I've seen features buxom female teenagers hiking in US forests and taking their tops off.  As far as I can make out, it is the sight of naked female breasts that attracts Bigfoot - it is the only time they attack and they always go for the exposed knockers.  Let's face it, in drizzly, overcast Britain, there is no way that local woman are going to be getting their norks out in the woods on a regular basis.  Personally, I suspect that British Bigfoot sightings have a lot to do with too many childhood readings of Stig of the Dump.  That and an increasing number of hairy homeless people being forced to live in the woods as a result of austerity over the past ten years.