Which town’s Horse Fair each June is notable as a gathering for Gypsies and Travellers?
Appleby Horse Fair Appleby Horse Fair The Appleby Horse Fair calls itself "an annual gathering of Gypsies and Travellers in the town of Appleby-in-Westmorland in Cumbria, England." The horse fair, also known as Appleby New Fair, is held each year in early June. It attracts about 10,000 Gypsies and Travellers, about 1000 caravans, several hundred horse-drawn vehicles, and about 30,000 visitors. The Fair is billed as the biggest traditional Gypsy Fair in Europe, one that's like a big family get together. The horses are washed and trotted up and down the flashing lane most main days. There is a market on Jimmy Winter's
Appleby Horse Fair people's fair. The legal status of the Fair does not depend on a charter, therefore, but on the legal concept of 'prescriptive right,' that is to say easement by prescription or custom. "Praescriptio est titulus ex usu et tempore substanniam capiens ab auctoritate legis." 'Prescription is a title by authority of law, deriving its force from use and time.' The fair is a regular but spontaneous gathering, and is not organised by any individual or group, although the Gypsies and Travellers have a "Shera Rom" (Head Romani) who arranges toilets, rubbish skips, water supplies, horse grazing etc., and acts as