Appleby Horse Fair

Appleby also home to the Laidlow family Andy is the best F1 and f2 sidecar racer to come out of this lovely town . He needs your support. this family have given everything they own to race with the best in the world they have three gorgeous children and hopes to carry on flying the flag for Appleby .And the horse fair is fab go on then you know you want to see both .Team"Past ...  Read the complete review

Appleby Horse Fair 2006 My friend & i decided to visit the fair instead of a weekend at Bramham horse trials,so tent in car we rolled into Appleby early saturday, it was chaos with cars pedestrians & horses everywhere. We managed to wind our way up to Gallows hill the main location of the fair & £5 on the gate & we were on the campsite with all & sundry but absolutely no facilities. We found a spot on the sloping field & set to with the tent within minutes an audience of gypsies had gathered 'who were these 2 girls setting up' cheeky banter & humourous quips we soon had them putting up the tent for us. All valubles locked in the ...  Read the complete review

Appleby-in-Westmorland is a very small Cumbrian town. It has the 'in-Westmorland' bit tacked onto it's name because when the county boundaries changed, Westmorland ceased to be. The people of Appleby didn't want to be in Cumbria (then called Cumberland), so they adjusted their town name accordingly. This small country town come to life every year early in June. This is when the biggest gathering of gypsies in Britain takes place at the Horse Fair.. In earlier years more than a thousand gypsy families arrived in their brightly coulored caravans for the fair. They clustered round Gallows Hill just outside the town. There was a lot of ...  Read the complete review