A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Berkeley. You may be able to find further references to Berkeley in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Berkeley | hundred | Bartholomew |
BERKELEY | a small town, a parish, a subdistrict, and a hundred | Imperial |
Berkeley, Vale of | strip of pasture land | Bartholomew |
BERKELEY (Vale of) | a rich strip of dairy land | Imperial |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Berkeley.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Alkington | tithing | Bartholomew |
ALKINGTON | a tything | Imperial |
Breadstone | township | Bartholomew |
Ham | hamlet | Bartholomew |
HAM | a tything | Imperial |
Ham and Stone | township | Bartholomew |
Hamfallow | township | Bartholomew |
HAMFALLOW | a tything | Imperial |
Hinton | township | Bartholomew |
HINTON | a tything | Imperial |
Newport | village | Bartholomew |
NEWPORT | a village | Imperial |
Purton | hamlet | Bartholomew |
PURTON | a hamlet | Imperial |
Stone | ecclesiastical district and village | Bartholomew |
STONE | a chapelry | Imperial |
Wick | village | Bartholomew |
This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Berkeley within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.
Traveller | Section | No. of Refs. |
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William Camden | Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire | 7 |
William Camden | Dorset and Somerset | 1 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 6, Part 2: Oxford, Bristol and Gloucester | 1 |
John Wesley | 1774-6: Wesley Arrested; A Terrible Ride; A Methodist Isaac Newton; the American War | 1 |
This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:
Place | Mentioned in Travel Writing | Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer |
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Ham | 0 | 3 |
Newport | 0 | 2 |
Hamfallow | 0 | 2 |
Alkington | 0 | 2 |
Breadstone | 0 | 2 |
Stone | 0 | 2 |
Stinchcombe | 0 | 2 |
Hinton | 0 | 2 |
Hill | 0 | 2 |
Purton | 0 | 2 |
Tortworth | 1 | 2 |
Purton | 0 | 2 |
Cam | 0 | 4 |
North Nibley | 0 | 3 |
Rockhampton | 0 | 2 |
Falfield | 0 | 2 |
Gatcombe | 0 | 1 |
Slimbridge | 0 | 2 |
Lydney | 1 | 2 |
Newarne | 0 | 2 |