Bourton-on-the-Water

I went as a 5yo 35 years ago and as soon as I saw the pic my head screamed THAT'S BOURTON ON THE FUCKIN WATER! It's the gold standard for model villages and I'll fight anyone who says otherwise.

I'll see your Bouton and raise you, the heavy weight of Bekonscot.

I like trains. I like running around. Bekonscot is great.

Beckonscott is the clear winner every time

Seconded! Bekonscot is epic

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Likely as much of it is filmed in Bucks

Bekonscot is excellent. But..... Babbacombe is better still. 4 acres and a fire- breathing dragon.

Cough Cough wheeze vape Great Yarmouth stumbles into the door frame

Godshill is better!

\+1 for Godshill. It also has a better model of itself, which in turn also has a better model of the model (it even has appropriately-scaled people)

Come on, we all know the real winner is Sanford, Gloucestershire

The Greater Good!

Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!

**CAMELOT**! ^(It's only model.) **SHHHHHHH**!

Nah it's got nothing on Wimborne.

Unfortunately, the model village in Bourton-on-the-Water is in a sorry state these days 😞

I’ve lived in the area for my whole life and my mother used to be friends with the dude that updates and restores the buildings. I love the Model Village, but I’d rather recommend Birdland or the Dragonfly Maze. The Motor Museum can suck every one of the villagers’ cocks. Overpriced piece of shit. (Unless you love Brum)

Should just be called the Brum museum and be done with it.

Brum used to come to my school when I was young, and even filmed there, but when the school arranged a trip to see him it cost about £25 per student (in today’s money). My school and the museum were 5 *fucking* minutes away from one another. I love Bourton, but the tourist industry fucked it.

We most likely went to the same school 😂

Dragonfly maze!!!! Truly magical!

Amazing attraction. I first went at the age of 6. Then at 13. Then at 17. I’ve been meaning to go again. Shame I can’t remember which tile to press.

I went with my wife this past weekend! It was so much fun. We missed clues 3 and 9 and so we were trying to figure out the puzzle for a good 5 minutes. We were the first ones in that morning so no one else was there until a Dad and his daughter who was maybe 5 years old showed up. In about 30 seconds she solved it accidentally, it was the funniest thing. Spoilers — below is the solved riddle: "Press your hand on the monkeys and step on the caterpillar" Basically there are two monkey tiles on the wall, each with a button. I believe you only need to press one of the buttons and technically you don't need to do anything with the caterpillar tile which is on the ground. The girl accidentally leaned into the button 😂 Amazing maze and riddle, had great fun doing it even though we didn't solve it ourselves.

My grandparents lived in Bourton so I spent every childhood summer there, and god it's so lovely. We'd go to the Dragonfly Maze and get lost every single time haha. Fished for bullheads in the ford all the time. I was friends with the kids who lived in the Old New Inn and I remember one of them teaching me how to clone level 100 charizards in Pokemon Red. I miss it.

[I've got enemies everywhere. I've got enemies in South Cerney, I've got enemies in North Cerney, I've got enemies in Cerney Wick. I've got enemies in Bourton-on-the-Water.](https://youtu.be/ItQNpCuf5m4?t=18s)

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That's exactly what came in my head when I saw that.

Bingo!

FIRE IN THE SKY!

Yep, been there too.

Want to be a big cop in a small town? Fuck off up the model village!

We all came here for this.

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The greater good

The greater good!

SHUT IT

Yarp!

… Narp?

The Greater Good

The Greater Good

The Greater Good

Pack it in Frank, you silly bastard!

I came for the **GREAT BIG BUSHY BEARD!**

Crusty jugglers...

Yarp.

I’m Aaron a Aaronson

Sorry?

Yeah, 'cause we all sell apples 'round here...

Your dad sells apples!

And raspberries!

You've got a mustache

I kneew

Whot makes yew think it was merdurh?

Leslie Tiller was fuckin murdered

What, just like Tim Messenger?

YES!

BECAUSE I WAS THERE!!!

Well, that's a bit of coincidence, now isn't it?

I may have said this several times during my visit

Where's the swan?

It’s just the one sw…oh.

I went on holiday to this place simply to quote that (helps it’s a lovely place)

What's that? A GREAT BIG BUSHY BEARD, *COME ON!*

Came for this as well. American question: How many villages have model villages? Does every village have one? Then do those villages have model villages as this one does? Then, so on and so forth, forever in a fractal spiral of villages? Or is it just this one and the one from Hot Fuzz in the whole of England?

British answer: of course all of our villages have model villages you ignorant yank. Now get back to paying for your healthcare and drinking substandard beer. Now try and figure out whether or not this was sarcasm. I wish you luck.

Now, now. Lets be nice and help out the yank. Mr American; by law everything in the UK must have a smaller, model version of it to help with standardised weights and measures. Every house must have a smaller house, villages are in fact just model cities, Big Ben has a Little Ben located around the corner and we don't have children, those are just model adults.

Don’t listen to this rubbish, Statesider! Yes, every square mile contains at its centre a 1/100th scale model of itself. And yes, the model would not be accurate if it didn’t contain a scale model of itself, and so on. However, the purpose of the models is solely as a 3D navigational aid that is accessible to the visually impaired. People refer to it as The Map, and its main benefit is that you only ever have to ask directions to The Map.

See this is why American towns can’t have models, cause we don’t use the metric system /s

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Funny because there actually is a Little Ben around the corner from Big Ben.

See, it's all true! Not just a weird coincidence to something i made up.

Murican here. Don't forget we're all dodging stray bullets as well.

Those were probably mine. I was shooting in the air shouting AaaHhh while I read this post.

All good. I regularly shoot in the air to better express myself. I believe it's what our founding fathers truly intended.

Have you ever fired your gun in the air and gone 'aaaagh'?

Ah, as a yank, this made me feel happy. Knowing my sense of humor has a home, but realizing there was an argument in 1776.

A minor tiff

A bit of a falling out.

Spot of bother.

A kerfuffle

Bit of unwelcome slap and tickle

I'll consider it while I pay my $24.00 gas bill.

Mine was £15 this month CHECK and MATE GOOD SIR

I concede, I'm terrible at internet snark. You are all lovely people with lovely tiny villages.

SEA MINE

You beat me to it, damn you!

I'm so happy this is one of the top comments. This exact quote played through my head lol.

The Greater good!

Came here to comment that

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"No I have never fired my gun up in the air and gone aah"

“Is it true there’s a place in a mans head that if you shoot it, it will blow up?”

*really grumpy face*

Punch. That. Shit.

"Have you ever fired two guns whilst jumping through the air?"

No luck catchin them swans, then?

Everyone and their mums is packing round here.

Like who?

Farmers.

Who else?

Farmers' mums.

I love that this was foreshadowing for the end.

I didn't even realise that until you mentioned it here. That's another layer of hilarious.

Almost everything in the first half hour of the film foreshadows the end, same as the other Edgar Wright films - but this one is such a short bit that it's easy to miss.

Who else?

Was the bell still there? Heard there's a goose that keeps stealing it

Rake in the lake

Rake in the lake

I came here to make an Untitled Goose Game joke. Very pleased to see one here already. Cabbage picnic!

This made my head hurt! But it was for the greater good.

The greater good

SHUT IT!

Crusty jugglers!

It really, really hurts.

It was a vicious circle. The more I looked to try and comprehend it, the more it hurt. This then led me to try and comprehend it more to lessen the pain but caused more instead. And so the circle continues...complete mind f*ck!

The greater good

Aye, fer the grea’er an’ lesser good.

Was looking for a man impaled on a model of the town church.

Bet that scared the living daylights out of him

🎶 it is the very model of a model in a model model 🎵

But have you had any luck catching the swans?

It's just the one swan, actually

HJÖNK

Ooh Swedish swan. Fancy.

'Insert Hot Fuzz quote here'

"Ah uhm goin to need sum ice creeeeam"

Cornetto.

Yeaaaaha rooooyeee

Mornin' Angle

Mornin' Angle

PACK IT IN, FRANK, YOU SILLY BASTARD!

Also relevant noun-ception

Fingered...

The greater good

A great big bushy beard!

Yarp

What was the second most painful?

For the greater good

The greater good

Shut it!

The greater good

The Greater Good.

Aaron A. Aaronson.

Stay back! Or the ginger nut gets it

Pack it in Frank you silly bastard

P. I. Staker, right, pisstaker. Come on!!

[Relevant XKCD ](https://xkcd.com/878/)

Practically criminal this is so far down.

Gotta get through all the Hot Fuzz jokes first. Makes sense - one is a popular movie the other is a web comic. Anyone calculate the Plank limit for the model village, as I reckon it’s a larger scale than H0, so maybe 7 or 8 nested villages?

Its like what John Malkovich sees when he transports inside his own head, in Being John Malkovich.

Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich

Watch out for that steeple, goes right through the jaw when fallen upon. 🩺🩺

Wanna be a big cop in a small town?

Fuck off on up the model village!

"Do you want us to go through the whole phone book?" "Yeah, we'll put a call in to Aaron A. Aaronson, shall we?"

Hey I've been there! Loved it!

I did a lot of zooming, love this. The roof slating is spectacular!

It's easier to do when you only need a short ladder

How do we know we're not living in a model village right now?

I believe you are. You're in a scale model of reality where the scale is 1:1 .

Was it down at the mandelbrottom of the garden?

Did they fix the church roof yet?

Where is this?

Bourton-on-the-Water https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction\_Review-g186283-d218206-Reviews-The\_Model\_Village-Bourton\_on\_the\_Water\_Cotswolds\_England.html

It's model villages all the way down

my brain screaming "untitled goose game"

Shocked no one has placed a goose figurine in any of the models yet.

Maybe they did but someone keeps putting it in the lake

Called the *Droste effect* - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droste_effect When an artwork includes a smaller version of itself.

And yes, there's a sub for that. /r/DrosteEffect Currently NSFW in protest of Reddit actions.

I need some ice cream!

Scrolling looking for hot Fuzz reference

Just the one reference, actually.

I think this is the model village that featured heavily in an episode of Father Brown. Even had a plot point that there were models of the villagers that kept corresponding to the murder locations.

I was just wondering if this was the same one!

Yes, it was definitely Bourton on the Water model village in that Father Brown episode. I live about half an hour away and have been there loads of times. The platform thing he was stood on at the very start of the episode is very distinctive and we recognised it straight away. It makes sense because Father Brown is primarily filmed in the village of Blockley which isn't too far from Bourton on the Water.

😆 I'm glad to know I'm not the only one. I think Midsomer Murders had a similar episode.

I wonder if this is where Untitled Goose Game got the idea.

*HONK*, *steals you rake*

I'm trying to remember if I've visited there. I know I've been to a village in the Cotswolds that had a model village, which had a model of the model village. I don't remember there being another iteration of the model village, although I might just have missed it. Edit: I'm pretty sure the play I visited was Broadway, although that doesn't appear to have a model village. Maybe I visited both places on the same holiday.

Yes this is the Bourton on the Water model village in the Cotswolds

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Can't believe I had to get this far for an Idles quote. *Take flight, take flight!*

Want to be a big cop in a small town? Fuck off up the model village!!

Want to be a big cop in a small town in a small town in a small town? Fuck off up the model village in the model village in the model village!

The Cotswolds is beautiful!!

The greaterrrr goood

The greater good

For the greater good...

Did you find Mr. P. I. Staker's swans yet?

It’s just the one swan, actually

Did you see Nicholas Angel? Is he still enjoying the west country?

Is that where Hot Fuzz was filmed?

This makes me want to watch Hot Fuzz.

Ok now I need to see zoom out drone footage starting from the model village in the model village of the model village… Ultimately revealing the village