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
Newbury bypass that the building of the road was to proceed and then resigned half an hour later. The bypass led to immense protests in an attempt to halt the felling of trees (including mature oak, ash, and beech) and the start of building work. A number of protesters were veterans from the Twyford Down protests over the building of the M3 motorway. Others were students, unemployed people, part-time workers and people taking time off from work to protest. In 1994, a local comprehensive school teacher, Helen Anscombe, founded "The Third Battle of Newbury", an umbrella group of organisations against the bypass.