SP1620 : The Model Village, Bourton-on-the-Water
taken 13 years ago, near to Bourton-on-The-Water, Gloucestershire, England
The Model Village is a one-ninth scale replica of the heart of the beautiful Cotswold village of Bourton-on-the-Water, containing all the buildings from the Old Water Mill (now the Car Museum) down to the Old New Inn and the ford.
The village was created by a previous landlord of the Old New Inn, taking local craftsmen five years to build, and it was officially opened on the Coronation Day of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (the late Queen Mother) in 1937. The village is such an accurate replica of Bourton-on-the-Water that it has a flowing river with water wheel, two ‘singing’ churches and even a model village within the Model Village Link