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Arlington is a Cotswold village in the parish of Bibury, Gloucestershire, England.
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Map of Arlington, Cirencester, UK
History
In 1066 Arlington had two mills and continued to flourish based on the wool trade until the 18th century.
Arlington was the ancestral home of John Custis II, who emigrated to the Colony of Virginia and named his palatial four-story brick mansion (built in 1675) in Northumberland County, Virginia, "Arlington" after the town. Arlington would be abandoned after just 50 years, but the name would be used again by his great-great-grandson, George Washington Parke Custis, as the name for his large Arlington Estate on the south shore of the Potomac River near what is now Washington, D.C. Upon Custis's death in 1857, the estate passed to his only child, Mary Anna Custis Lee, wife of American Civil War General Robert E. Lee, and today is known as Arlington National Cemetery.
Landmarks
Arlington Row is a nationally notable architectural conservation area depicted on the inside cover of all United Kingdom passports. The cottages were built in 1380 as a monastic wool store. This was converted into a row of cottages for weavers in the seventeenth century. It has been used as a film and television location, most notably for the films Stardust and Bridget Jones's Diary.
Arlington Manor was built in the 17th century. It has an adjoining 18th century barn.
Religious sites
On the green is a Baptist church built in 1833.