Alderley (also previously known as Alderleigh[3]) is a village and civil parish in the Stroud district of Gloucestershire, England, about fourteen miles southwest of Stroud and two miles south of Wotton-under-Edge.

It is situated on the Cotswold Way near to the villages of Hillesley and Tresham and lies underneath Winner Hill between two brooks, the Ozleworth and Kilcott.

[4] The village has an entry in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it is referred to as Alrelie[5] meaning "Woodland clearing where alders grow" (from OE alor + lēah).

[6] Records show that the village is located in the hundred of Grimboldestou with a total population of sixteen (16) households[notes 1] (7 villagers, 5 smallholders, 4 slaves) whilst also boasting 2 lord's plough teams, 7 men's plough teams, 12 acres of meadows and 1 mill; in 1066 the Lord of the Estate was the Saxon thegn Wigot of Wallingford, whereas in 1086 it was the wealthy Norman landowner Miles Crispin.

[8] In the 16th and 17th centuries, the village contained a number of woolen mills,[4] and in Samuel Rudder's A New History of Gloucestershire published in 1779 he states that Alderley had been home to the clothing industry for hundreds of years.