Candy Sheridan of the Gypsy Council, Dale Farm, on the outskirts of Essex, the largest Irish Traveller and Gypsy site in Europe


Dale Farm is part of an Irish Traveller halting site on Oak Lane in Crays Hill, Essex built on a former scrap yard and housing over 1,000 people. It is the largest Irish Traveller site in the UK. The site has two parts, a legal site that has planning permission and a site where the land is owned by travellers but where planning permission has been refused. This land is classified as green belt and has been developed by the traveller community despite the lack of planning permission. The unofficial portion of Dale Farm is exclusively occupied by members of the Irish Traveller community, whose cultural roots are in the town of Rathkeale, County Limerick, Ireland.


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Location: Dale Farm, Oak Lane, Crays Hill, Essex, England, United Kingdom
Photo credit: © Jeff Gilbert / Alamy / Afripics
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