Brierley, Gloucestershire

Brierley is a village in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire at grid reference SO625151.

It has a petrol station and shop, the Swan public house and bus services to other places.

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

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