This was also one of my childhood favourites and a heartwarming tale. It was a series televised in 1976, based on the book "The Diddakoi" by Rumer Godden. It's available to watch on YouTube.
Kizzy lives in a gypsy wagon with her Nan and horse Joe, but her Nan dies and her people move on so she has to go and live in the village and attend the local school, which she hates and where she is viciously bullied. She's no heroine- she can punch, scratch and throw a strop like the rest of them and is a royal pain in the butt when she stays with, firstly, the Admiral, at his big house and then Olivia, the local magistrate. There is a happy ending, though, as the latter two marry and she becomes part of their family and gets accepted by her peers.
The ending, with the schoolkids wheeling in her gypsy mini-wagon, which they have lovingly restored after a fire, and leading in her new horse Joey (Joe died) brought a tear to my eye. Lovely stuff!
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