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Things to do · Uley
Hetty Pegler's Tump (Uley Long Barrow)
A Neolithic chambered long barrow at least 5,000 years old on the Cotswold edge above Uley, 37m long, with chambers you can go into by torchlight; free in daylight and in English Heritage's care.
Dog-friendly · Walker-friendly
A Neolithic long barrow you can still go inside: bring a torch. Parking is for two cars at most, so walk from Uley Bury or along the Cotswold Way from Coaley Peak if you can.
- Good: Free, at any reasonable time in daylight
- Good: Dogs on leads welcome
- Good: A mile along the Cotswold Way from Nympsfield Long Barrow
- Worth knowing: Room for only one or two cars in the lay-by
- Worth knowing: Bring a torch: the chambers are dark
- Worth knowing: Take care crossing the road from the lay-by
About
Hetty Pegler's Tump, properly Uley Long Barrow, is a Neolithic burial mound at least 5,000 years old on the Cotswold edge about a mile north of Uley, looking out over the Severn vale. The name comes from Hester Pegler, who owned the land in the seventeenth century. The mound is 37m long and of the transepted type: two pairs of chambers open off a central passage, giving it a cross-shaped plan.
Between 15 and 20 skeletons have come out of it over the years. Coins and pottery show it was opened in Roman times, workmen seeking stone destroyed one chamber in 1821, and what you see is largely Dr John Thurnham's reconstruction after his dig in 1854, with repairs in 1871, 1891 and 1906. English Heritage cares for it, and Gloucestershire County Council manages it.
It is free and open at any reasonable time in daylight. Bring a torch: the chambers are dark, and you can go in. Parking is a lay-by for one or two cars, and there are no toilets or refreshments on site; the nearest are in Stroud. The ground is uneven and the slope steep. Dogs on leads are welcome. Allow half an hour.
Better still, walk: Nympsfield Long Barrow is a mile north along the Cotswold Way, and Uley Bury just to the south. With Belas Knap above Winchcombe, they are among the long barrows in English Heritage's care in Gloucestershire.
Opening hours and season
Open at any reasonable time in daylight. No toilets or refreshments on site.
Facilities
- Lay-bySpace for one or two cars, diagonally opposite the footpath; free
- Dogs on leads
The details
- Time to allow
- Half an hour; a morning with the other sites
- History
- Neolithic, at least 5,000 years old; reconstructed after a dig in 1854
- Parking
- A free lay-by with space for one or two cars, diagonally opposite the signed footpath to the barrow. Take care crossing the road.
- Without a car
- Buses run to Uley from Stroud and Dursley; from the village it is about a mile up to the barrow, or walk the Cotswold Way south from Coaley Peak.
Photos
The eastern portal Photo: David Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons 
Inside the chamber Photo: don cload, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons 
The barrow from the field Photo: Helen Steed, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons 
The south chambers
Location
Places to stay nearby
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Owlpen Manor Cottages
Self-catering · Uley
Nine dog-friendly holiday cottages for two to eight, and a glamping camp, on the Owlpen Manor estate in a wooded valley a mile east of Uley.
Dog-friendly · Walker-friendly · Family-friendly
Verified Oct 2026
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Downhouse Farm Holidays
Self-catering · Dursley
A Grade II listed farmhouse for ten and a converted granary barn for four on a working family farm at Springhill, about a mile from Dursley; dogs welcome.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly · Walker-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
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Woodland House
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A seven-room B&B in a quiet cul-de-sac six minutes' walk from Dursley, with a hot tub, a sauna, a guest kitchen and parking for seven cars.
Walker-friendly · Hot tubs · Family-friendly
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Nearby walks, places and things to do
- Uley Bury 1.2 km away
- Nympsfield Long Barrow 1.4 km away
- Uley Brewery 1.8 km away
- Owlpen Manor Cottages 2.0 km away
Sights nearby
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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.
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Woodchester Park boathouse
Sight · Historic building · Nailsworth
The boathouse on Old Pond in Woodchester Park is a small rustic building of about 1820, probably by John Adey Repton for the first Earl Ducie, with a boat dock below and a timber oriel over the boat opening. Grade II; seen from the path over the dam.