An urgent warning to Arrowtown - from the UK's "most beautiful village in the world."

The lastest in a series of articles from Crux Managing Editor Peter Newport who is currently visiting Europe and the United States.

You can tell the English village of Bibury is in trouble before you even get there.

Hundreds of no-parking cones are placed along nearby (and not so nearby) roadside verges to prevent people parking. Something you’d expect for an All Blacks Test at Twickenham or a major international event perhaps - not all around a small Gloucestershire village on a wet, cold November afternoon.

No parking cones - for miles around,

But this village is now so besieged by tourists that the local council is looking to ban tour buses and residents have teamed up with local police to try and stem the flow of visitors.

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