Hotel · Bibury
The Swan Hotel
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
The hotel by the bridge in Bibury, on the Coln, with a free car park and a lift, both rare in an old inn. Dogs are welcome in the bar and garden. The garden cottages are the choice for more room.
- Good: Free car park for guests
- Good: Lift to the upper floors
- Good: Dogs welcome in the bar and garden
- Worth knowing: Dogs £20 a night, £10 for each extra dog
- Worth knowing: No dogs in the restaurant
- Worth knowing: Room count not published
About
The Swan is a former coaching inn beside the bridge over the River Coln in Bibury, and one of seven hotels in the Cotswold Inns and Hotels group, owned by Fuller's since 2019.
There are 22 bedrooms: 18 in the hotel, running from classic doubles and twins, some looking over the river, the courtyard or the garden, to superior and deluxe rooms and four-posters, and four in the garden cottages. The Rookery family room has a double and a twin sharing a bathroom, and there are four garden cottages (Bewick, Trumpeter, Whistling and Whooper, which has its own hot tub), each with a sitting room downstairs and the bedroom above. The hotel has a lift and a free car park, neither of which is a given in an old inn.
The Swan Brasserie serves seasonal British cooking from breakfast to dinner, with Sunday lunch, a children's menu and afternoon tea by the river. Vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free dishes are on the menus.
Dogs stay in set rooms for £20 a night and may join you in the bar and the garden, though not the restaurant. The hotel also holds weddings and meetings.
Arlington Row and Bibury Trout Farm are a few minutes' walk away, and the Bibury and the River Coln walk starts in the village.
Opening hours and season
Breakfast
| Monday | 07:30 to 09:30 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 07:30 to 09:30 |
| Wednesday | 07:30 to 09:30 |
| Thursday | 07:30 to 09:30 |
| Friday | 07:30 to 09:30 |
| Saturday | 07:30 to 09:30 |
| Sunday | 07:30 to 09:30 |
The brasserie serves food daily from breakfast to dinner, and the bar serves food all day. Table bookings from 11am to 9.30pm.
The details
- Food
- Modern British
- Serving
- Breakfast · Lunch · Afternoon tea · Dinner · Sunday lunch
- Dietary
- Vegetarian dishes · Vegan dishes · Gluten-free dishes · Children's menu
- Rooms
- 22
- Check-in
- From 3pm
- Check-out
- By 11am
- Features
- Restaurant · Bar · Garden or terrace · By the water · Family rooms · Dogs in rooms · Dogs inside · Parking · Wi-Fi · Events and meetings
- History
- Former coaching inn
- Parking
- Small free car park for guests. Check the booking confirmation for its postcode before using a sat nav.
- Without a car
- Kemble is the nearest main-line station, about 12 miles away by the hotel's reckoning.
Photos
The water garden 
The restaurant 
A bedroom 
Afternoon tea
Location
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- Eleven Bibury 0.3 km away
- 9 Arlington Row 0.3 km away
- Bibury Trout Farm 0.3 km away
- The Catherine Wheel, Bibury 0.4 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.