Brierley, Gloucestershire
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Brierley is a village in the Forest of Dean
, Gloucestershire
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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.
Forest of Dean
The Forest of Dean is a geographical, historical and cultural region in the western part of the county of Gloucestershire, England. The forest is a roughly triangular plateau bounded by the River Wye to the west and north, the River Severn to the south, and the City of Gloucester to the east.The...
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Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean....
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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
Winifred Foley
Winifred Mary Foley was an English writer.-Forest life:...
(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.