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A BEAUTIFUL BLACK SWAN AT BIBURY

The River Coln attracts much wildlife to Bibury, including the rare black swan in this mini-vid. However, the birds must reckon that tourist offerings make easy pickings, and this creature is no exception. I’ve always taken great care to recall my late Mum’s warning, “Never feed the swans David – they’re bad tempered, and a [...]

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THE WEAVERS’ COTTAGES OF ARLINGTON ROW

This video gives you a quick peep at an architectural piece de resistance, the brain-meltingly picturesque Arlington Row, in Bibury, not far from the handsome town of Cirencester. The Cotswold stone cottages once housed weavers who supplied cloth for ‘fulling’ – cleaning wool to remove oil and dirt – at Arlington Mill, also in Bibury. [...]

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WAS WILLIAM MORRIS RIGHT TO CALL BIBURY THE MOST BEAUTIFUL VILLAGE IN ENGLAND?

Well, according to the craftsman-artist William Morris (above) it is – or was, when he was around in the last half of the 19th century. At that time, of course, the village of Bibury was deep in rural England, and the road through it would have been just a muddy trail. Today, Bibury is best [...]

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