Things to do · Bibury
Bibury Trout Farm
A working trout farm on the River Coln at Bibury, founded in 1902, with a café, a shop, catch-your-own fishing and its own pay car park.
Family-friendly · Dog-friendly
A good family stop in Bibury, and its car park is one of the few places to leave a car in the village. The café and shop need no ticket. The entrance is from the rear while the front road is closed.
- Good: Café and shop open without an entry ticket
- Good: Catch your own trout at weekends and in school holidays
- Good: Dogs welcome on leads
- Worth knowing: Car park £10 a day
- Worth knowing: Entry from the rear; the front road is closed
- Worth knowing: Gravel paths in places; only part of the farm suits wheelchairs
About
Bibury Trout Farm is a working fish farm on the River Coln in Bibury. It was founded in 1902 and says it is the oldest working trout farm in England. Visitors walk round the ponds and, at weekends and in school holidays, catch their own trout with rods supplied by the farm.
Fish you catch are killed, weighed and paid for by the kilo, and staff will clean and gut them for £1 a fish. You can cook them on brick barbecues booked ahead, or take them home with ice packs (£1) from the fish shop. No licence or equipment is needed.
There is crazy golf, an interactive children's trail and picnic benches round the farm, which makes it an easy half-day with children. The café serves trout and other local food, and with the gift shop it can be visited without an entry ticket. Dogs are welcome on leads.
The farm is a short walk from Arlington Row and the Swan Hotel, and the Bibury and the River Coln walk passes close by. While the road in front is closed, the entrance is from the rear, signed from the village.
Opening hours and season
Closed, opens Mon 9, 09:00
| Mon | Opening | Café | Shop |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday | 09:00 to 17:00 | 09:00 to 16:30 | 09:00 to 17:00 |
| Tuesday | 09:00 to 17:00 | 09:00 to 16:30 | 09:00 to 17:00 |
| Wednesday | 09:00 to 17:00 | 09:00 to 16:30 | 09:00 to 17:00 |
| Thursday | 09:00 to 17:00 | 09:00 to 16:30 | 09:00 to 17:00 |
| Friday | 09:00 to 17:00 | 09:00 to 16:30 | 09:00 to 17:00 |
| Saturday | 09:00 to 17:00 | 09:00 to 16:30 | 09:00 to 17:00 |
| Sunday | 09:00 to 17:00 | 09:00 to 16:30 | 09:00 to 17:00 |
Café: Hot food until 4pm
Last entry 4.15pm. Catch Your Own runs from 10am at weekends and in school holidays, weather permitting, with last rods at 4pm.
Facilities
- Café9am to 4.30pm; hot food until 4pm; no ticket needed
- Gift shop and fish counter
- Crazy golf and interactive kids trail
- Disabled toilet and baby changingDisabled toilet next to the café; baby changing inside the farm
- Dogs on leads
- Pay car parks£10 a day
The details
- Features
- Café · Shop · By the water · Picnic area · Play area · Parking
- History
- Trout farm since 1902
- Parking
- Three pay car parks for visitors at £10 a day (2026): turn left at the Swan Hotel and follow the signs up the hill. Free parking in and around the village is limited.
Photos
The boardwalk 
The ponds 
A brown trout 
Smoked trout from the farm
Location
Accessibility
- Accessible toilet
Some paths are gravel and hard going in a wheelchair; concrete and earth paths reach part of the farm, and the farm says a wheelchair can get onto the river pontoons. A disabled toilet is next to the café. Disabled visitors go free.
Places to stay nearby
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9 Arlington Row
Self-catering · Bibury
The National Trust's holiday cottage in Arlington Row, Bibury: a two-bedroom former weaver's cottage for three, with a wood burner and a private garden behind the famous terrace.
Verified Oct 2026
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Cotteswold House
B&B · Bibury
A renovated guest house in Arlington, Bibury, a short walk from Arlington Row, with double rooms, a family suite and two self-catering cottages, and a cooked breakfast for those in the rooms.
Verified Oct 2026
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The Swan Hotel
Hotel · Bibury
A former coaching inn by the bridge over the River Coln in Bibury, part of Cotswold Inns and Hotels, with a brasserie, a lift, a free car park and dog-friendly rooms.
Dog-friendly · Wedding venues
Verified Nov 2026
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- The Catherine Wheel, Bibury 0.1 km away
- 9 Arlington Row 0.2 km away
- Cotteswold House 0.3 km away
- The Swan Hotel 0.3 km away
Sights nearby
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Ablington Manor
Sight · Historic building · Bibury
Ablington Manor is an Elizabethan house in the hamlet of Ablington near Bibury, dated 1590 for John Coxwell, with five carved royal heads over its porch. Listed Grade I and a private home, it is seen from the lane through the hamlet.
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Arlington Row, Bibury
Sight · Historic building · Bibury
Arlington Row is a terrace of stone cottages above the mill stream in Bibury, built as a wool store in the late fourteenth century and turned into weavers' homes in the seventeenth. Grade I and owned by the National Trust, the cottages are lived in and seen from the path.
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River Coln
Sight · River · Cirencester and the Coln Valley
The limestone river of the south Cotswolds, rising near Sevenhampton and running south-east past Chedworth, Bibury and Arlington Row, Coln St Aldwyns, Quenington and Fairford to join the Thames at Inglesham above Lechlade. Five of our walks follow or cross it.
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St Mary's Church, Bibury
Sight · Church · Bibury
St Mary's in Bibury is a Saxon church grown over five centuries, with eleventh-century walling, Saxon stones in the chancel, carved capitals of the Oseney canons, the county's earliest stained glass and a Karl Parsons window of 1927. Grade I and open daily.