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Zoe Chamberlain & Tristan Cork

The 'most beautiful village in England' is just an hour from Bristol

It’s the absolute epitome of a ‘picture-postcard’ village - the kind that adorned the chocolate box lids that gave the created the idea of the ‘chocolate box village’.

And you will almost certainly recognise the village of Bibury, in the Cotswolds, even if you’ve never been there - it’s been the backdrop to films like Stardust and Bridget Jones’ Diary, and a view of it is even the illustration inside the front cover of your passport.

The artist William Morris called Bibury, which is just the other side of Cirencester and about an hour’s drive from Bristol, the ‘most beautiful village in England’, and while there are plenty of other similar places in this part of Gloucestershire, none are as famous or photographed, BiminghamLive reports.

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