Bibury, Gloucestershire - Arlington Mill - art postcard c.1980s

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• Picture / Image:  Arlington Mill, Bibury [Gloucestershire] -from original drawing by Kenneth A. Bromley
• Publisher: The Craftsmans Calling, Bibury, Glos. 
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Bibury is a village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England. It is on both banks of the River Coln which rises in the same (Cotswold) District and which is a Thames tributary. The village is centred 6 ¹⁄₂ miles (10 km) northeast of Cirencester. Arlington Row here is a nationally notable architectural conservation area depicted on the inside cover of all United Kingdom passports. It is a major destination for tourists visiting the traditional rural villages, tea houses and many historic buildings of the Cotswold District; it is one of six places in the country featured in Mini-Europe, Brussels.

 the Domesday Book (1086), a record of survey done under William the Conqueror, the place is named Becheberie, and it is recorded that the lands and church in Bibury were held by St. Mary's Priory at Worcester, from whom it passed in 1130 to the Abbey of Osney, near Oxford: the Abbey continued to hold it until its dissolution in 1540.^[2]

The Church of England parish church of St Mary is very late Saxon with later additions and listed in the top of the three heritage/architecture categories, Grade I. Its main material is random (cobblestone) and coursed rubble limestone with a slate roof. It is formed of a nave with north and south aisles, south porch, north west tower and chancel, tower, arched doorways.^[3][4] There is an early canonical sundial on the south wall. From AD 1130 until the English Reformation during the sixteenth century, it was a peculier of Osney Abbey in Oxford.^[4] Adjacent to the church is the village primary school that was built in the 1850s. In 2015 the school had 43 pupils on its roll in two classes.^[5] On the Arlington (west) side of the village is Arlington Baptist Church, where a congregation has been meeting since the 1740s.^[6]

Late in the nineteenth century George Witts recounted the discovery of the Bibury Roman villa: "In the year 1880 a Roman villa was accidentally discovered in the parish of Bibury, about six miles northeast of Cirencester. Some Roman pottery, coins, remnants of tesselated pavements, &c., were found, but as no examination has yet taken place, no description of the building can be given."—George Witts, 1883^[7] The site fills a small low meander downstream of the bridge on the Arlington, Bibury side.^[8] Bibury village proper, on the east bank, consists of approximately 40 homes and businesses, of which two are prominent hotels.

The nineteenth-century artist and craftsman William Morris called Bibury "the most beautiful village in England" when he visited it.^[9][10]

The village is known for its honey-coloured seventeenth century stone cottages with steeply pitched roofs, which once housed weavers who supplied cloth for fulling at nearby Arlington Mill. Until the 1980s, that building also housed the museum of Arlington Mill with a collection of period clothing, before it was shifted to Barnsley House.^[10] The Mill is now a private residence.^[11