The River Churn at Bibury

G. and B., whom I stayed with in their Spanish home recently, were coming to stay for a night on their way from Lincolnshire to Devon, where they were going to visit family and friends. I thought that we could eat some fresh trout from a well known farm at Bibury. 

The journey is about fifteen miles taking me through very pretty and differing but classic Cotswold landscapes, from steep valleys, thick woodlands to open rolling farmland and several villages built of the beautiful local limestone .

Luckily the weather changed for the better allowing for clear skies and bright wintry sunshine, which highlighted the remaining beautiful yellowy brown  leaves of the predominant beech trees. After buying the fish I decided to park and have a look at the classic scene of the river churn flowing through the small village of Bibury. Luckily there weren’t too many tourists buses there, which have come to plague this pretty scene. For some reason it has been promoted as one of the ;’must see’ views of the Cotswolds and huge numbers of tourists arrive from Heathrow on day trips to see England. Even the car park and tourist information signs are written in Japanese.

There is a famous row of old Cotswold stone cottages, called Arlington Row, close to where I stood to take this picture. But because the sunlight was behind them I decided I preferred this view of the tranquil river, looking upstream towards the trout farm hidden behind the tree on the left close to the old Arlingrton Mill.