Bibury, Arlington Rowdetails

And here you come at last to Arlington Row. It does not disappoint. The Row is worthy of every praise that has ever been penned for it. William Morris wrote of Bibury and Arlington: “lying down in the winding valley beside the clear Coln, surely the most beautiful village in England.” There are, we know, many “most beautiful villages in England,” but who would gainsay the contention of Morris, who knew the country so well. We are also left with Leslie’s 1898 academy picture of the Row as some very small consolation for our descendants, for Bibury must, very sadly, fall under the crushing bands of time of “progress.”