Inn · Nailsworth
The Amberley Inn
An inn with 13 en-suite rooms on the hillside above the Woodchester valley at Amberley, near Nailsworth and Stroud, which describes itself as a restored 16th-century inn.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly
Thirteen rooms with a view over the Woodchester valley, with dog-friendly and family rooms, and the commons on the doorstep. Every booking includes breakfast, and dinner can be added when you book direct.
- Good: Valley or garden views from the premier rooms
- Good: Dog-friendly and family rooms
- Good: Gluten-free, vegetarian and vegan dishes
- Good: Dinner add-on when booking direct
- Good: Taxis arranged from Stroud station
- Good: Free car parking
About
The Amberley Inn, which describes itself as a restored 16th-century inn, stands on Culver Hill, Amberley, on the hillside above the Woodchester valley and at the edge of Minchinhampton Common. Nailsworth, Stroud, Minchinhampton and Rodborough Common are each under ten minutes' drive away. It is a pub, restaurant and bed and breakfast, with a heritage bar with a fire and a cottage garden.
The kitchen uses local produce, including meat from Folly Farm and suppliers from Stroud's farmers' market, and cuts its own chips, with gluten-free, vegetarian and vegan options and local ales. Breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner are served; dinner runs to 9.15pm from Monday to Saturday and to 8pm on Sundays. Tables can be booked on the inn's table booking page (opens in a new tab).
There are 13 refurbished en-suite rooms, some of them in the Garden Cottage behind the inn. They include premier rooms with valley or garden views, one with a four-poster (ask when you book direct), a family room with a double and a single bed, and dog-friendly rooms, with a £20 surcharge for each dog. The inn's own booking engine lists a cottage that sleeps four as well. Rooms are normally ready from 2pm, and the booking terms promise free car parking. Every booking is bed and breakfast, with a continental buffet, lighter dishes or a full English, and guests booking direct can add dinner for £25 for two courses or £30 for three (2026). Stroud station is three miles away, and the inn will arrange a taxi.
Minchinhampton Common is a short walk from the door, and the National Trust's Woodchester Park is about five miles away by road, to the west.
Opening hours and season
Restaurant
| Monday | 18:00 to 21:15 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 18:00 to 21:15 |
| Wednesday | 18:00 to 21:15 |
| Thursday | 18:00 to 21:15 |
| Friday | 18:00 to 21:15 |
| Saturday | 18:00 to 21:15 |
| Sunday | 18:00 to 20:00 |
Dinner times. Lunch is in the opening note.
Lunch Monday to Friday 12pm to 2.30pm, and from 12pm at weekends. Breakfast 7.30am to 9am on weekdays and 8.30am to 10am at weekends.
The details
- Serving
- Breakfast · Brunch · Lunch · Dinner
- Dietary
- Vegetarian dishes · Vegan dishes · Gluten-free dishes
- Rooms
- 13
- Check-in
- From 2pm
- Features
- Garden or terrace · Views · Open fire · Real ale · Restaurant · Bar · Family rooms · Dogs in rooms · Parking
- History
- A restored 16th-century inn, by its own account
- Parking
- Free car parking, the inn's booking terms say.
- Without a car
- Stroud station is 3 miles away, and the inn arranges taxis.
Photos
The inn and the valley 
The dining room 
A bedroom 
Brunch
Location
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- The Black Horse, Amberley 0.3 km away
- The Old Lodge 0.7 km away
- Dunkirk Mill Museum 1.0 km away
- Woodchester Valley Vineyard stays 1.1 km away
Sights nearby
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Minchinhampton Common
Sight · Common or park · Minchinhampton
Minchinhampton Common is a wide sweep of limestone grassland above Stroud and Nailsworth, in the care of the National Trust since 1913, where commoners' cattle graze and an Iron Age bank, a long barrow, pillow mounds and wartime trenches lie in the turf. Free to wander.
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The Bulwarks, Minchinhampton
Sight · Hill fort or barrow · Minchinhampton
The Bulwarks is a Late Iron Age bank and ditch that sweeps across Minchinhampton Common north and north-west of the town: a bank 10m to 12m wide with a stone face, dated by pottery found in the 1937 excavation. It lies on free National Trust common land.
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Whitfield's Tump, Minchinhampton Common
Sight · Hill fort or barrow · Minchinhampton
Whitfield's Tump is a Neolithic long barrow on Minchinhampton Common, a low mound 26m long where early farmers buried their dead, named from the tradition that the preacher George Whitefield spoke from it in 1743. A scheduled monument on free National Trust land.
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Woodchester Park
Sight · Common or park · Nailsworth
A steep wooded valley west of Nailsworth, National Trust since 1994: a deer park walled by the Huntleys after a grant of 1564, with five lakes of the early nineteenth century, a boathouse of about 1820 and the unfinished Woodchester Mansion at its head.