English Travellers
The term English Travellers refers to itinerant groups, and may mean:
- Romanichal Travellers, or more commonly referred to as English Travellers or English Gypsies, who are a Romani ethnic group with Romani origin.
- British Showman, commonly referred to as Funfair Travellers, who are occupational Travellers and members of the Showman's Guild of Great Britain who make money from their funfairs. They are entirely native to Britain.
- New Age travellers (Van Dwellers) who are commonly referred to as hippy travellers, who were hippies who lived in converted vans, trucks and buses in Britain in the 1980s and 1990s.
- Bargee Travellers (Boat Dwellers) who are people who live in narrowboats (house-boats) in Britain’s canals and rivers.
- English Travellers is also the name used by a group of semi-nomadic people that settled in Texas in the early 1800's still reside in lower to central Texas.
See also
- Scottish Travellers and Gypsies. Scotland has two main Travelling communities, Indigenous Scottish Highland Travellers of Gaelic origin and Scottish Lowland Romani Gypsies of Romani origin
- Irish Travellers, an ethnic group originating in Ireland
- Traveler (disambiguation)
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