An odd question perhaps for English or European Dopers: do trailer parks exist in the UK and Europe?
By trailer park, incidentally, I’m referring to anchored manufactured/mobile singlewide/doublewide housing units of the sort seen here rather than to Winnebagos and campers and other caravan style vehicles.
Yes, they do.
They aren’t trailers, call them “caravans” 
My mother grew up in a trailer park in Battersea, an area just south of the Thames.
Kniz is quite right, they do call them “caravans”. That is just sort of the generic term for any trailer home type dwelling in the U.K. They’re just as common there as they are in the U.S.
My poor mum was teased incessantly growing up about being a “gypsy” because her family lived in a caravan. Sort of the English equivalent of being called “white trash” I guess. Kids apparently don’t change that much from continent to continent.
I just saw some on CNN during a news piece on the flooding in England a couple of days ago. Quite a few of the trailers had floats on the bottom, and just rode out the flood with little problem.
Actually Candlemas, Trailer parks as an all year round dwelling in England are comparively rare (as compared to the US). Most of the people living in these parks are retired couples.
The reason I suspect your Mother lived in a park is that after the war, especially in London due to the blitz and the baby boom, there was a need for cheap and fast-to-build accomadiation, which was filled by among other things mobile homes. There are still a few of these post-war devlopments left, but most of them have been removed and replaced.
in my town there are two
they are called static parks
i went to the lake district and stayed in one courtesy of the site manager who had an un let unit
the ease the housing problem for a lot of people and are all piped up for gas elec and have central heating
they can be moved but are securely anchored down to resist the weather
there is also a shop and a restaurant on some sites and during the summer season a lot of the vacant bays are taken by ‘drive ins’
I saw that too DreadCthulhu, and there was me thinking that there was nobody left in this country with initiative and the willingness to invest properly. Brings a tear to the eye!
Trailer parks as an all year round dwelling in England are comparively rare
It may depend somewhat on the region: Exeter has (at least) two, but then Devon is popular for retirement. Worth adding, maybe, that UK sites range between two styles:
Ah, GQ never fails me. Thanks all, for the info.