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The Appleby Horse Fair, which begins today in Cumbria, has been a mainstay of the gypsy calendar since the early 20th-century. Above: The fair in the 1980s.
The Appleby Horse Fair (pictured), in Cumbria, is expected to see 30,000 visitors to the town over the next week, with 10,000 of them from the gypsy, Roma and traveller community.
The population of the town in which the Appleby Horse Fair takes place will swell by 900 percent over the next few days as visitors come to enjoy themselves.
People were seen sat in the bow-top caravans being led by horses along a road in Appleby, Cumrbia, ahead of Appleby Horse Fair which begins on Thursday.
This is the bizarre moment a man, thought to be a traveller, trotted a pony into a pub ahead of Europe's largest horse fair as stunned drinkers…