For decades, the town of Appleby-in-Westmorland has been a hive of horse-trading fun, when it is visited for a few days in June by Travellers from all across Europe.The Appleby Horse Fair, which begins today in Cumbria, has been a mainstay of the Gypsy calendar since the early 20th-century, and can trace its roots further back.But according to local historian Andrew Connell, it does not have its origins in a 1685 charter issued by King James II, as some have claimed.
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