Police and council officials were called in to move a group of travellers off Barony Park in Nantwich.
The travellers with seven or eight vehicles and caravans, were spotted setting up on a corner of the park near Birchin Lane.
Local police and Cheshire East Council officers arrived and ordered the group to move off the land, now owned by the new leisure trust under the control of Cheshire East.
But the travellers got into their vehicles and towed their caravans a couple of hundred yards to the other side on land at Coronation Gardens!
One eye witness who watched it unfold, said: “I’ve never seen anything like it! Police were just scratching their heads.
“They moved them off and they simply drove on the land between Volunteer Fields and Beam Street.
“They started getting their washing out, hanging it up between trees. I don’t think Nantwich has seen the like of it before!”
Nantwich Town Councillor Arthur Moran said Coronation Gardens was classed as “open space” but the land still belonged to the council.
“I know they moved off Barony and on to there. Police and Cheshire East should be dealing with it.
“The question is, where do they go if they get moved on again? We just have to monitor the situation.”
Cllr Andrew Martin, who represents Nantwich South and Stapeley on Cheshire East, added: “I am concerned about anyone setting up camp in the middle of Nantwich.”
Residents have taken to social media to air their views on the presence of travellers.
Families are currently fighting a plan to turn the former RAF camp at Hack Green, Nantwich, into a permanent site for travelling Showpeople.
They say the site is not suitable and that it would have an adverse impact on traffic and on local services.
(pictures courtesy of local readers via Twitter)
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