Coaley Peak

Coaley Peak is a picnic site and viewpoint in the English county of Gloucestershire.

Coaley Peak.

Located about 4 miles (6.4 km) south-west of the town of Stroud overlooking the village of Coaley, Coaley Peak offers 12 acres (4.9 ha) of reclaimed farmland (now a wild flower meadow) with views over the Severn Vale and the Forest of Dean. It is next to a Woodland Trust beech wood and the National Trust's Frocester Hill site.[1] The Cotswold Way long-distance footpath passes through the site.[2] The site includes the excavated Neolithic burial site Nympsfield Long Barrow.[3]

Coaley Peak was for many years a seasonal home to a community of new age travellers, who were evicted around 2002 to make way for more grassland.[4]

References
  1. "Coaley Peak". The Cotswold Gateway. Archived from the original on 14 October 2016. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  2. "Coaley Peak Picni Site". Discover Stroud District. Visit Cotswolds. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  3. "Coaley Peak, Gloucestershire". UK Southwest. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  4. "Travellers plan to remain on site". Stroud News and Journal. 9 January 2002. Retrieved 20 July 2020.

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