Resources

The LGT Community Map supports Gypsies and Travellers in London to explore and share their experiences of using local services – for example, those related to housing, sites, employment, health and education.

The interactive map allows you to chart your experiences – but also to find out other people have discovered about services available for Gypsies and Travellers. The Community Map is part of LGT’s London Mapping Project, run with Mapping for Change.

Go to the LGT Community Map introduction page

With National Lottery funding, London Gypsies and Travellers has recorded population data, sites and tenures across every borough, and recorded the histories and voices of Travelling Showpeople, Irish Travellers and Romany Gypsies. This has resulted in the interactive LGT history and heritage maps, produced with Mapping for Change, documenting memories of place, lived experiences and social, economic and cultural relationships.

The history and heritage map shows: existing sites and yards and those that have been lost; travelling routes; and the web of historical connections between travelling and settled communities and the places they share and live in today. This is the first set of interactive, online maps of London to foreground the knowledge, skills and cultural lives of travelling people.

You can read more about the history and heritage project here, and access the maps here.

Our listing of organisations and websites provides pointers to other sources of information and support for Gypsies and Travellers. A comprehensive listing of specialist services for Gypsies and Travellers is also provided on the Travellers’ Times website.