Arlington Row

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title: "Arlington Row" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["grade-i-listed-houses-in-gloucestershire", "cotswold-district", "cotswolds", "tourist-attractions-in-gloucestershire"] description: "Building in Bibury, England" topic_path: "general/grade-i-listed-houses-in-gloucestershire" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlington_Row" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Building in Bibury, England ::

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Field	Value
name	Arlington Row
image	Arlington Row Bibury.jpg
locmapin	Gloucestershire
coordinates
location	Arlington, Bibury, Gloucestershire, England
designation1	Grade I listed building
designation1_offname	Arlington Row
designation1_date	23 January 1952
designation1_number	1155677
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Arlington Row at Arlington in the parish of Bibury, Gloucestershire, England was built in the late 14th century as a wool store and converted into weavers' houses in the late 17th century. It is a Grade I listed building, owned by the National Trust.

Arlington Row on Awkward Hill is a nationally notable architectural conservation area depicted on the inside cover of all United Kingdom passports. It is a popular visitor attraction, reportedly one of the most photographed Cotswold scenes.

History

The cottages were built in 1380 as a monastic wool store. This was converted into a row of cottages for weavers in the late 17th century, with some late 17th- or early 18th-century additions.

The cloth produced there was hung out on racks to dry on The Rack Isle opposite, before being sent on to Arlington Mill for degreasing.

It was preserved by the Royal Society of Arts 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 films Stardust and Bridget Jones's Diary.

In 2017 the BBC reported that an "ugly" car parked by an elderly motorist had been vandalised, possibly by visitors who had repeatedly complained that it spoilt photographs.

Architecture

The limestone two-storey buildings have gables below cruck roofs covered with slate.

References

References

1. "Arlington Row". Historic England.
2. "Bibury". National Trust.
3. "Arlington Row, Bibury". Loving the Cotswolds.
4. (Jan 2009). "Gloucestershire – History – Day Out: The South East Cotswolds". BBC.
5. "Arlington Row, Bibury". Bibury.
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8. "Filming Location Matching "Arlington Row, Bibury, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England, UK"". IMDB.
9. "Passport picture not behind influx of tourists according to Bibury residents".
10. (13 May 2010). "Tales from Bibury Shop: Japanese and English".
11. "Beauty spots to appear in our new passports".
12. (4 February 2017). "Notorious yellow car vandalised in Bibury". BBC Gloucester.
13. (1994). "Arlington Row, Bibury, Gloucestershire: Early Conversion of an Industrial Building?". Vernacular Architecture.

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