Coaley Peak

{{Short description|Picnic site and viewpoint in Gloucestershire, England}}

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

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Located about {{convert|4|mi}} south-west of the town of Stroud overlooking the village of Coaley, Coaley Peak offers {{convert|12|acre}} 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.{{cite web |title=Coaley Peak |url=http://thecotswoldgateway.co.uk/coaley-peak.htm |publisher=The Cotswold Gateway |accessdate=20 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161014190016/http://thecotswoldgateway.co.uk/coaley-peak.htm |archive-date=14 October 2016 |url-status=live }} The Cotswold Way long-distance footpath passes through the site.{{cite web |title=Coaley Peak Picni Site |url=http://www.visitthecotswolds.org.uk/things-to-see-and-do/attractions/picnic-sites-and-views/coaley-peak-picnic-site/ |website=Discover Stroud District |publisher=Visit Cotswolds |accessdate=20 July 2020}} The site includes the excavated Neolithic burial site Nympsfield Long Barrow.{{cite web |title=Coaley Peak, Gloucestershire |url=https://www.uksouthwest.net/gloucestershire/coaley-peak/ |publisher=UK Southwest |accessdate=20 July 2020}}

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.{{cite news |title=Travellers plan to remain on site |url=https://www.stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk/news/6701676.travellers-plan-to-remain-on-site/ |accessdate=20 July 2020 |work=Stroud News and Journal |date=9 January 2002}}