Travellers have pitched up on a car park at a popular beauty spot.
A group of at least eight caravans was spotted moving on to the site, off Chanterelle, Colchester, on Saturday.
The area provides parking space for visitors to High Woods Country Park.
Essex Police, the Essex Travellers Unit and Colchester Council are understood to be aware.
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