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B&B · Bibury
Cotteswold House
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.
A walkable base for Bibury, so you can see Arlington Row before the coaches come. Check-in is only between 3pm and 5pm, parking is limited, and it is for adults and children over eight only.
- Good: A short walk to Arlington Row and the River Coln
- Good: Cooked breakfast, with vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free choices
- Good: Two cottages with their own kitchens for longer stays
- Worth knowing: Check-in only between 3pm and 5pm
- Worth knowing: Limited parking at the house; more nearby
- Worth knowing: No children under eight, no pets, quiet from 9pm
About
Cotteswold House is a long-established guest house in Arlington, part of Bibury, now fully renovated and a short walk down to Arlington Row, Rack Isle and the River Coln. It has no website of its own and takes bookings through Booking.com and Expedia.
There are four double rooms and a family suite of two connecting rooms in the house, each with a TV and a tray for tea and coffee and a bathroom with a shower over the bath; the two rooms of the family suite share theirs. Two two-bedroom cottages in the grounds have kitchens, and a smaller cottage for two looks onto the garden. Breakfast, for guests in the house, is a help-yourself spread with a hot dish ordered ahead, and caters for vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free diets.
Booking.com lists check-in between 3pm and 5pm and check-out by 10am, a minimum age of 18 for the person checking in, and card payment only, with no cash. Children under eight, pets, parties and hen or stag groups are not taken, and the house is quiet from 9pm to 9am. There are a few parking spaces behind the house. Leave the car there and walk Bibury and the River Coln early in the morning.
The details
- Serving
- Breakfast
- Rooms
- 7
- Check-in
- 3pm to 5pm
- Check-out
- By 10am
- Features
- Garden or terrace · Wi-Fi · Parking · Family rooms
- Parking
- A few spaces behind the house; more parking nearby.
Location
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- The Catherine Wheel, Bibury 0.2 km away
- Bibury Trout Farm 0.3 km away
- 9 Arlington Row 0.5 km away
- Eleven Bibury 0.6 km away
Sights nearby
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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.
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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.