Residents of Britain’s ‘most beautiful village’ are being driven out of their homes by ‘entitled’ tourists blocking roads and sneaking photos through letterboxes.
Known for its 17th-century terrace of weavers’ cottages, which have featured in films like Stardust and Bridget Jones’s Diary, Bibury in Gloucestershire can attract up to 20,000 visitors on weekends – more than 30 times its ordinary population.
The Cotswolds village dates back to the Iron Age and in 1880 it was dubbed by William Morris as ‘the most beautiful village in England’.
But with coaches of day trippers navigating narrow roads, the rise in tourists has led to traffic congestion,
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