Residents Of This UK Town Live In Tents And Graveyards

A UK town named Camborne in Cornwall, England is in the headlines for the wrong reasons. According to a report published in the Daily Star, Camborne has become one of the most impoverished areas in the country with the natives being forced to live in tents in churchyards, graveyards and temporary cabins. Others are housed in the old Salvation Army hotel as well.

Police in this town are also backed up by uniformed bouncers, following complaints from locals about hooliganism, beggars and widespread drug use. An urban explorer named Joe Fish said in an interaction with the portal, “For a period of time, this area of Cornwall was one of the richest places in the whole world.” Fish added, “And it’s now one of the most deprived in the whole of Europe.” Urban explorers are generally looking for places that are off the beaten path- places that have been abandoned or overlooked.

Fish estimates that between 20 per cent and 30 per cent of the high street’s shops are covered with boards for security. Those that remain, mostly vape shops and bookies, are in a poor state of repair. Empty beer cans, discarded takeaway wrappers and other trash cans are seen piled on every street.

According to the urban explorer, just off the high street, there is a narrow street with walls on both sides replete with drug paraphernalia. Drug paraphernalia is any equipment that is used to produce, conceal and consume illicit drugs. Fish said that this area in England received payments from the European Union to solve the poverty crisis. As per him, it was one of only four areas within the United Kingdom that qualified for these payments. “But of course since Brexit the subsidies are gone now and the town is really struggling, he said.

Fish has spoken to a lady living in a ragged tent in the churchyard, who said she had been camping there for about five months. She told him that the local council had been unable to help her family and had left them to fend for themselves. The lady told Fish that she, her mother, stepdad and partner all rented privately and the landlord evicted them one day from the house.