A parish council are determined to fight against horse grazing on Nutfield March.
Nutfield Parish Council have said they are fed up with the "intrusion into the rural landscape of the illegal over-grazing of horses by self-styled travellers, horse dealers and others".
Their concerns include vans being driven onto land to feed the horses, reckless driving by those drivers, horse and trap racing, litter, fly-tipping, horse dung and criminal intimidation of locals that have the temerity to challenge this behaviour.
The parish council have said: "Residents have been terrorised, their cars set alight and a once beautiful landscape and wildlife haven - this is also great crested Newts habitat, an EU endangered species - has been reduced to little more than wasteland by fly-tipping, transit van races and horse dung.
"We have spent the last two years seeking to obtain title to the common land, but frustrated by the glacial progress of the solicitors from various Whitehall departments, they still await the opportunity to purchase the land and take control of the situation."
