We happened across it around 40 years ago on our way to holiday in the Lake District, we thought the sight and sound of the spectacle was quite amazing.
We all need somewhere to live in peace really - I don't know enough about the community to comment other than it was quite an occasion to witness and we weren't offered any clothes pegs or bunches of lavender.
There is a new development over in Churston that has recently been completed 6 months ago they are 500k each (large grey boxes) and about 6 of them, none of them have sold as yet. They have been built on a site adjacent to an area of common land upon which the travelling community turn up occasionally and leave in a bit of a state, the Council have bordered the area with large boulders but it didn't prevent them gaining access last year.
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-64038088.htmlSince the houses have been completed it has become a builders fence "gated" estate and they park an empty police vehicle near the entrance to the houses, I am assuming as a deterrent to any would be travellers/squatters not likely to speed up the selling process.
