Gloucestershire

Explore Gloucestershire Beaches and Coastline

Gloucestershire is not a true coastal county as it only touches the Bristol Channel where the River Severn joins. Gloucestershire is in southwest England and includes the Forest of Dean, large parts of the Cotswolds and the River Severn valley. The Cotswolds take up a large portion of the east and south, The Forest of Dean taking up the west, with the Severn and its valley splitting the two.

Image of The River Severn in Shrewsbury by Chris Bayley

Gloucestershire Coast Map

Gloucestershire Coast Search Bar

Where would you like to go? Use our search bar to search across all our local listings, ideal for finding that nearest spot to visit:

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Want some ideas on where to visit?

Every favourite location must be visited for the first time. Want some ideas, why not check out the below small selection of coastal locations, including beaches, activities, things to see and do, and places to stay and eat:

Sports

Sandford Parks Lido

The 50m lido opened in 1935 and like many of the old Lido’s rely on Charitable Trusts and volunteers to keep them running. Read more…
Landscape and Nature

Forest of Dean

The Forest of Dean covers 35 square miles between the rivers Severn and Wye. The forest has thick coniferous and deciduous woods and rolling hills. In Roman times this was a major hunting area and in Tudor times the Oak was used for shipbuilding. Throughout the Forest, you are welcome to explore, walk and cycle the many miles of signed Read more…
Things to see and do

Stratford Park Outdoor Pool

Stratford Park Outdoor Pool is a spring water-filled outdoor pool, which first opened in 1936. The pool is open during the summer months as an alternative to the indoor pool at the Stratford Park Leisure Centre. Read more…
Things to see and do

Nympsfield Long Barrow

Nympsfield Long Barrow is the remains of a Neolithic burial site or barrow. It lies at the edge of a woods, and is now the location of a picnic site. Nympsfield is one of the earliest examples of a barrow with separate chambers, constructed around 2800 BCE. Read more…
History and heritage

The Wilson Art Gallery and Museum

The Wilson Art Gallery and Museum houses an internationally significant museum collection of exceptional quality and variety, changing displays of our Designated Arts and Crafts Movement collection and fine art collections. The museum is home to The Open Archive, which houses our fascinating archives relating to Antarctic explorer Edward A. Wilson, Cheltenham’s history and the Emery Walker Library.   Read more…
History and heritage

Ashleworth Tithe Barn

Ashleworth Tithe Barn is a 15th-century tithe barn, is picturesquely located on the banks of the River Severn in Gloucestershire. Read more…
Place to eat

The Lord John Pub

The Lord John is a Wetherspoon pub in Stroud, Gloucestershire. Our pub offers a range of real ales, craft beers and freshly ground Lavazza coffee. Breakfast is served until noon, with our full food menu available until 11 pm.     Read more…
Minchinhampton-Common

Minchinhampton and Rodborough Commons

Rolling hills, wide open spaces and biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest rising up above the Stroud Valleys and Severn estuary. Minchinhampton Common is a large (82.7-hectare – 451-acre) area of grassland on the slopes and hilltop. Rodborough Common, 116.0-hectare (287-acre),  is just to the North of Minchinhampton Common and has some great views over the Stroud and the Severn Vale. Read more…
Things to see and do

Kingswood Abbey Gatehouse

All that survives of Kingswood Abbey today is the 16th-century Abbey gatehouse. The abbey was founded in the year 1169 by William of Berkeley and colonised from the Cistercian house at Tintern. Read more…
Things to see and do

Little Fleece Bookshop

Little Fleece Bookshop, a traditional 17th-century building Cotswold house (originally part of a former inn) in the beautiful Cotswold village of Painswick. Read more…
Things to see and do

Uley Long Barrow

Uley Long Barrow, also known as “Hetty Pegler’s Tump”, is a Neolithic burial mound. Although typically described as a long barrow, the mound is actually a transected gallery grave. It is about 180ft (55m) in length and contains a stone built central passage with two chambers on either side and another at the end. The earthen mound is surrounded by Read more…
Rococo-Gardens

Rococo Gardens

Painswick Rococo Gardens were designed in the mid-1700s by Benjamin Hyett after he purchased the house in the 1730s. Rococo describes a period of art fashionable in Europe in the 1700s, identifiable particularly in furniture and architecture and the gardens at Painswick just outside Stroud in Gloucestershire are one of the only surviving examples open to the public. The gardens Read more…
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