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Wool store
The cottages began as a monastic wool store in 1380
Arlington Row in Bibury was built in 1380 as a monastic wool store. In the late 17th century it was converted into a row of cottages for weavers. It is a Grade I listed building owned by the National Trust.
Rack Isle
Cloth was hung to dry on Rack Isle and sent to Arlington Mill
The cloth made there was hung out on racks to dry on Rack Isle opposite, before being sent on to Arlington Mill for degreasing. Rack Isle is now a water meadow and a National Trust Wildfowl Reserve.
Preserved
The row was preserved in 1929 and restored in the 1970s
The row was preserved in 1929 and restored by the National Trust in the 1970s. It has been used as a film and television location, most notably for the film Stardust.
William Morris
William Morris called Bibury the most beautiful village in England
The 19th-century artist and craftsman William Morris called Bibury the most beautiful village in England when he visited. The village is known for its honey-coloured 17th-century stone cottages with steeply pitched roofs.
The church
The church is very late Anglo-Saxon, with a carved churchyard
The Church of St Mary in Bibury is very late Anglo-Saxon with later additions, and is listed Grade I. Its churchyard holds many carved table tombs with bale tops and headstones with cherubs from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Day 4, morning
Next is Cirencester.
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