How did Travellers become associated with Hampshire?
Traditionally, Gypsy Travellers lived and worked in the rural areas of Hampshire. Many came to work in the hop fields and to pick strawberries for the London market. Since the 1950s many Gypsies and Travellers have found alternative means of work within urban or semi-urban economies as landscape gardeners, tarmac layers, motor trade workers, scrap metal dealers, tree fellers etc.
