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Tiny Bourton

Bourton-on-the-Water · The Cotswolds

Tiny Bourton

Find the tiny model of the model, hidden inside the model village.

  • ⏱ 25 min
  • 💷 £
  • 🥾 Easy

Bourton's Model Village is a 1-in-9 scale replica of the village itself, built in the 1930s and still standing where the real river runs past in miniature. Because it's a model of the village it sits in, it technically contains a model of itself — go find it.

What you’ll do

  1. 1Get inside
  2. 2Find the middle
  3. 3Prove it
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Photo: Sumit Surai, CC BY-SA 4.0

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