Brierley, Gloucestershire

Brierley
Brierley
	A4136 through Brierley (September 2007)
	Brierley Location within Gloucestershire
OS grid reference	SO625151
District	Forest of Dean;
Shire county	Gloucestershire;
Region	South West;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	DRYBROOK
Postcode district	GL17
Dialling code	01594
Police	Gloucestershire
Fire	Gloucestershire
Ambulance	South Western
UK Parliament	Forest of Dean;

Brierley is a village in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.^[1] It has one petrol station and a shop, the former owned by BP and the latter by Londis.

Brierley was the birthplace of Winifred Foley (25 July 1914 – 21 March 2009) author of the autobiographical A Child in the Forest (1974), and other later works including No Pipe Dreams for Father (1977).^[2] The village was also the birthplace of her father, Charlie Mason, who led the hunger march to the workhouse of Westbury during the pit strikes of May 1926.

Nearest places

References

^ "Brierley, Gloucestershire". gazetteer.org.uk. Retrieved 17 March 2026.
^ "Winifred Foley". The Daily Telegraph. No. 47, 847. 3 April 2009. p. 31. ISSN 0307-1235. From this and subsequent meetings came a 1973 Woman's Hour serial, read by June Barrie, followed, in 1974, by a BBC book, A Child in the Forest, which became the first of the now-celebrated "Forest Trilogy". Charting her upbringing during the early 20th century, the story subsequently inspired a BBC Television drama Abide with Me (1977). The book's sequel, No Pipe Dreams for Father (1977), chronicled her teenage years, while the concluding volume, Back to the Forest (1981), described Winifred Foley's return to the Forest of Dean with a family of her own after the Second World War. She was born Winifred Mary Mason on July 25 1914 at the pit village of Brierley near Cinderford.

External links

photos of Brierley and surrounding area on geograph

[1] "Brierley, Gloucestershire". gazetteer.org.uk. Retrieved 17 March 2026.

[2] "Winifred Foley". The Daily Telegraph. No. 47, 847. 3 April 2009. p. 31. ISSN 0307-1235. From this and subsequent meetings came a 1973 Woman's Hour serial, read by June Barrie, followed, in 1974, by a BBC book, A Child in the Forest, which became the first of the now-celebrated "Forest Trilogy". Charting her upbringing during the early 20th century, the story subsequently inspired a BBC Television drama Abide with Me (1977). The book's sequel, No Pipe Dreams for Father (1977), chronicled her teenage years, while the concluding volume, Back to the Forest (1981), described Winifred Foley's return to the Forest of Dean with a family of her own after the Second World War. She was born Winifred Mary Mason on July 25 1914 at the pit village of Brierley near Cinderford.

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