Fairmile, Devon Allercombe), included a number of tree houses and networks of underground tunnels and bunkers. The occupants of the camps were eventually evicted in January 1997 by Bailiffs acting for the Under-Sheriff of Devon, accompanied by specialist climbing and caving experts. This was amid considerable national publicity, and led to the temporary celebrity status of the final occupant of one the Fairmile tunnels, Daniel Hooper, known by his nickname 'Swampy'. Fairmile, Devon Fairmile is a hamlet in the English county of Devon. It lies on the former A30 trunk road approximately west of Honiton, where this road crosses the Talaton to
Tom Hooper Tom Hooper Thomas George Hooper (born 5 October 1972) is an English film and television director of English and Australian background. Hooper began making short films as a teenager, and had his first professional short, "Painted Faces", broadcast on Channel 4 in 1992. At Oxford University Hooper directed plays and television commercials. After graduating, he directed episodes of "Quayside", "Byker Grove", "EastEnders" and "Cold Feet" on British television. In the 2000s, Hooper directed the major BBC costume dramas "Love in a Cold Climate" (2001) and "Daniel Deronda" (2002), and was selected to helm the 2003 revival of ITV's "Prime Suspect"