Sunday, 1 August 2010

BIBURY

Bibury is a typical Costwold village just a short drive from Cirencester.
Bibury is about as typical a Cotswold village as you could wish to find.

The village centre clusters around a square near St. Mary's, a Saxon church. Some of the Saxon remains inside the church are replicas as the originals are housed in the British Museum.
One of the village's main tourist spots and overlooking a water meadow and the river is Arlington Row, a group of ancient cottages with steeply pitched roofs dating back to the 16th Century (photo left).
Henry Ford thought Arlington Row was an icon of England. On a trip to the Cotswolds he tried to buy the entire row of houses to ship back to Michigan!

Yes I cribbed the above from the internet, probably a better description than I could do. So back to my ramblings.
We spent a lot of time looking at the ducks, some of them were swans but still ducks for Timmy's sake! I also tried to take some photos of the trout in the stream but they weren't good enough. Strange as they appeared quite clearly to the naked eye.

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