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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Ross

Council bans repainting homes and putting up fences in ‘Bridget Jones’ village without approval

The village of Snowshill, made famous by Bridget Jones’s Diary, where new planning rules are in place to prevent major altercations to homes - (Getty/iStock)

With its honey-coloured stone cottages, red telephone box and Victorian church, it’s not hard to see why the picturesque Cotswold village of Snowshill was chosen for a setting of Bridget Jones’s Diary.

Although the village near Tewkesbury did not feel the immediate impact from the film’s release in 2001 - the community closed due to foot and mouth disease outbreak - it certainly is today, with it being a popular stop on tour trips from London.

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