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Cotswold stone cottages in Bibury |
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Bibury
Bibury shown within Gloucestershire |
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| OS grid reference | SP1106 |
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| Parish | Bibury |
| District | Cotswold |
| Shire county | Gloucestershire |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Police | Gloucestershire |
| Fire | Gloucestershire |
| Ambulance | Great Western |
| EU Parliament | South West England |
| List of places: UK • England • Gloucestershire | |
Bibury is a village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England. It is situated on the River Coln, about 6.5 miles (10.5 km) northeast of Cirencester.
The Church of England parish church of Saint Mary is Saxon with altar additions.[1] From AD 1130 until the English Reformation it was a peculier of Osney Abbey in Oxford.[1]
The artist and craftsman William Morris called Bibury "the most beautiful village in England" when he visited it. Its honey-coloured 17th century stone cottages with steeply pitched roofs once housed weavers who supplied cloth for fulling at nearby Arlington Mill. The mill now houses a folk and agricultural museum, containing a room dedicated to Morris.
The River Coln flows alongside the main street. Its water supplies the trout farm, where up to ten million rainbow trout can be spawned yearly, but usually around one to two million are spawned.
Late in the 19th century George Witts recounted the discovery of the Bibury Roman villa:[2]