Tensions between tourists and locals in "England's prettiest village" have reached boiling point after a series of "nightmare" confrontations.
Bibury, in the heart of the Cotswolds, is home to just 700 residents - and is struggling to cope with an influx of up to 20,000 visitors each weekend.
The situation has now become increasingly fraught, with locals warning of dangerous parking, traffic gridlock and confrontations with tourists.
Easter saw tensions escalate further when resident Mark Honeyball claimed his foot was run over by a Range Rover in a heated parking dispute.
Honeyball told the BBC's Local Democracy Service he was injured while attempting to stop a tourist from parking illegally.
"I had to call the police on the day and they couldn't get to me as a Range Rover had very nicely run over my foot in a dispute over where they shouldn't be parking and did a quite bit of damage," he said.
The picturesque Cotswolds village has become overwhelmed with visitors
GETTY"It's not broken, just badly bruised," he added.
Honeyball said the situation in the village had become "beyond a joke" - and added that emergency services now struggled to move through the traffic.
And in another tourist fracas, he said: "I had another one on Monday who I was asking to move off my drive and he just put his car into gear and drove along the pavement at me."
Bibury Parish Council chairman Craig Chapman - who was with Honeyball when he sustained his foot injury - told the Independent that the Easter weekend was a "complete and utter nightmare" due to queues of visitors.
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Bibury is particularly sought after by Japanese tourists, as it is believed Emperor Hirohito stayed there in the 1920s
GETTYAt one point over Easter, some cars were forced to reverse a mile up the road because a coach carrying tourists couldn't navigate a corner on the village's narrow roads.
"We have to do something about it - we can't let it go on like this," Chapman fumed.
The village's popularity has surged in recent years, fuelled by social media influencers promoting it as an idyllic getaway from major cities like London.
Bibury is particularly sought after by Japanese tourists, as it is believed Emperor Hirohito stayed there in the 1920s.
'We have to do something about it - we can't let it go on like this,' Chapman fumed
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The village is famed for its row of 17th-century cottages on Arlington Row, which artist William Morris once described as the "most beautiful village in England".
Village leaders are now working on a plan that could see coaches banned in an effort to reduce over-tourism.
A working group of representatives from Bibury Parish Council, police, and Gloucestershire County Council has already decided to change the layout of coach parking bays in a bid to prevent vehicles from parking or waiting in a nearby layby.
Further measures being considered include reviewing weight restrictions, finding coach parking outside the village and looking at ways to ban coach stopping and parking altogether.
