Outside the camp, most local residents in the village of Cray's Hill no longer want to speak publicly about living alongside hundreds of travellers.

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The village of Bishops Cleeve lies at the foot of Cleeve Hill, the highest point in the Cotswolds.

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In Serjeh, a village perched on a hill overlooking olive trees rooted in earth the colour of terracotta, the bulky, uniformed men of Suqur al-Sham (Falcons of Syria) strike a sterner tone.

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But the hill in White Horse Village is just one of thousands of political battlefields that tell a different story.

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The cooperative said the two-field site, located in two paddocks between Lascot Hill and Quab Lane, would reduce the village's carbon footprint and bring "financial prosperity" to the community.

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Having fallen on hard times, he was living down the hill in Kentish Town, then a low-lying, poor village between London and Hampstead which the rich preferred to gallop through as fast as possible.

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