Owlpen
Owlpen is a small village and civil parish in the Stroud district of Gloucestershire, England, set in a valley in the Cotswold hills. It is about one mile east of Uley, and three miles east of Dursley.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 34 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, UK
- Also known as: “Owlpen, Gloucestershire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Uley Long Barrow and Coaley Wood Quarries.
Uley Long Barrow
Archaeological site
Photo: Martinevans123, Public domain.
The Uley Long Barrow, also known locally as Hetty Pegler's Tump, is a Neolithic burial mound near the village of Uley, Gloucestershire, England.
Coaley Wood Quarries
Forest
Photo: Ian S, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Coaley Wood Quarries is a 4.85-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, notified in 1974. The quarries lie within the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
The New Lawn
Stadium
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The New Lawn, also known as The Bolt New Lawn for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire. It has been the home stadium of National League club Forest Green Rovers since 2006. The New Lawn is situated 2½ miles northeast of Owlpen.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nailsworth and Uley Bury.
Nailsworth
Town
Photo: Maretinevans123, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Stroud is at the heart of the Five Valleys in the Cotswolds. It is in Gloucestershire, England. There's many fine, beautiful and interesting things to see but it's not "pretty" in the way that similar sized towns in the Cotswolds or Gloucestershire are. Nailsworth is situated 3 miles east of Owlpen.
Uley Bury
Locality
Photo: Edward J. Burrow, Public domain.
Uley Bury is the long, flat-topped hill just outside Uley, Gloucestershire, England. It is an impressive multi-vallate, scarp-edge Iron Age hill fort dating from around 300 B.C. Standing some 750 feet above sea level it has views over the Severn Vale.
Shadwell
Hamlet
Uley is a village and civil parish in the county of Gloucestershire, England. The parish includes the hamlets of Elcombe and Shadwell and Bencombe, all to the south of the village of Uley, and the hamlet of Crawley to the north.
Owlpen
- Categories: village and civil parish
- Location: Stroud District, Gloucestershire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Owlpen” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Owlpen”
- Dutch: “Owlpen”
- French: “Owlpen”
- Irish: “Owlpen”
- Italian: “Owlpen”
- Ladin: “Owlpen”
- Persian: “اولپن”
- Polish: “Owlpen”
- Swedish: “Owlpen”
- Turkish: “Owlpen”
- Welsh: “Owlpen”
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