Tinkers' Bubble, Norton Covert

Introduction

The photograph on this page of Tinkers' Bubble, Norton Covert by Becky Williamson as part of the Geograph project.

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Tinkers' Bubble, Norton Covert

Image: © Becky Williamson Taken: 22 May 2015

Tinkers' Bubble is an eco-friendly communal settlement, set in a small off-grid hillside woodland community on 40 acres (16 hectares) of land in rural Somerset, England. The residents, known as Bubbleites, manage the land without fossil fuels, and have been for the last twenty years making a living mainly through forestry, apple products and gardening. As a result they say they are money poor but happiness rich. The name Tinkers Bubble comes from the spring that flows through the woodland ending in a small waterfall by the road. This is where gypsies brought their horses to water them at the bubble; the gypsy name for a waterfall.

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