However the RSPCA, which patrols the fair, has said just a small minority of visitors have ever shown scant regard for animal welfare. Already travellers have clashed with locals in neighbouring market towns when they decided to set up an overnight camp at the Upper Eden Rugby Club when their camp was sprayed with cow manure and sectioned off with boulders.
This year an agreement was reached that the organisers - the Appleby Horse Fair Multi-Agency Strategic Co-ordinating Group - would host the event subject to any potential changes in Covid regulations and guidance around large gatherings. Travellers decided to set up camp at the nearby Upper Eden Rugby Club when one of their established overnight camps was sprayed with cow manure and sectioned off with boulders.
Travellers arrive in Cumbria for the Appleby Horse Fair, which begins tomorrow. The fair, which was cancelled last year due to the coronavirus outbreak, is the biggest gathering of gypsies and travellers in Europe, attracting tens of thousands of travellers and visitors to Cumbria each year. Had no date been set, there would be an increased likelihood of ad hoc gatherings which nobody would be prepared for. As the traditional date is not viable, there has had to be compromise on all sides.
As Chair of the MASCG I would like to thank everyone for their patience and for their willingness to find common ground during what is a difficult time for everyone. Pauline Foster pictured said she and the other travellers 'were doing no harm' and had pitched up at the rugby club because their established site had been sprayed with cow manure.
Members of the traveller community said they were being victimised and forced off the site for no reason. Travellers began to arrive in Kirkby Stephen at the weekend ahead of the fair, which attracts around 10, gypsies and 30, visitors. Locals in Kirkby Stephen claimed threats were made against them as travellers blocked the road during a 'stand-off.
The gypsies said they were being victimised and forced off the site for no reason, questioning why the remote spot where they had planned to stay had been covered in manure.
One local said: 'It was a frightening and intimidating situation to have a camp suddenly set up right in the middle of the community. And to make it worse the rugby club was told it couldn't lock the gate in case any of them wanted to leave.
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