A neighbour has spoken of unease in the community at the return of a group of travellers to Swindon's Polo Ground.

The group on the land off Marlborough Road is one of three to set up camp in the town this week, with others on the Dog Space in Wroughton and Wootton Bassett Road.

The gate to the Polo Ground is normally padlocked and the latest encampment follows a similar instance in July, when a group gained "unauthorised access" to the field.

The resident, who did not want to be named, told the Adver: “I find it difficult to believe the barrier to the field was padlocked."

She said her neighbours contacted the police and the local authority when the travellers arrived last month.

“We were told that they had come for a specific event, and wouldn’t be saying long”, she explained.

When they left, she assumed that they wouldn’t be returning and was surprised to see more vehicles on the field this week.

She said: “I was in my back garden when they started rolling onto the polo ground in vast numbers.

“They may be perfectly reasonable, but because of the reputation you assume you’re unsafe."

She added that when they initially arrived, the travellers “paid no heed whatsoever to the people in the Polo Ground” by making noise and causing obstructions on bikes.

She says that some of the travellers left on Thursday, but a few are showing no signs of leaving and is finding the situation “destabilising”.