What could be more tweely English than the limestone-cottaged Cotswolds village of Bourton-on-the-Water? The answer: the same village, in miniature.
Of the country’s dozens of model villages, Bourton’s is one of the most realistic – even down to the lichen on its train ticket-sized roof tiles – and one of the most impressive. Lovingly maintained for 80 years, the model village features garden furniture, individually-made rafters, carefully-pruned Bonsai-style trees, and a population of 3,000 cast resin figurines.
And today, it features a giant. Well, a normal-sized human, really, but he is a giant compared to the 1:9-scaled cottages and churches, and he is a giant in the world of model villages....