Berkeley Road, junc. sta., 2 miles E. of Berkeley,
W. Gloucestershire.

Berkeley, Vale of, W. Gloucestershire, rich strip of
pasture land, 23 miles long and 4 miles broad, noted
for its dairies and cheese (the “ Double Gloucester”).

Berkeswcll, par. with ry. sta., N. Warwickshire,

6 miles W. of Coventry, 5958 ac., pop. 1451; P.O.;
contains Berkeswell Hall.

Berkhampstead, Great, par. and market town with
ry. sta., W. Herts, 22 miles W. of Hertford and 28
miles NW. of London, on the Grand Junction Canal—
par., 4364 ac., pop. 4485; town (which includes part of
Newchurch), pop. about 5000; P.O., T.O., 1 Bank, 3
newspapers. Market-day, Wednesday. It has mfrs. of
chemicals, straw-plait, and fancy wooden wares. B.
was the birthplace of Cowper, the poet (1731-1800).

Berkhampstead, Little, par., in SE. of co. and 4¼
miles SW. of Hertford, 1694 ac., pop. 424; birthplace
of Bishop Ken (1637-1711).

Berkley, par., E. Somerset, 2 miles NE. of Frome,
1927 ac., pop. 322.

Berkshire, one of the inland cos. of England,
lying between Hants and the river Thames, bounded
on the N. by Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, and Bucks,
E. by Surrey, S. by Herts, and W. by Wilts ; greatest
length, E. and W., 53 miles ; greatest breadth, N. and
W., 30 miles; area, 462,210 ac., pop. 218,363. It is
intersected in a westerly direction by a line of chalk
hills, a continuation of the Chilterns, the highest eleva-
tion being White Horse Hill, alt. 893 ft. N. of this is
the White Horse Vale (so called from the figure of a
horse cut out on the hill-side), and to the S. lies the Vale
of Kennet, watered by the Kennet stream. These
tracts are well cultivated, and produce good crops of
grain, &c., especially in the Vale of the White Horse.
Dairy farms and commons abound; much of the surface
is under woods, chiefly of oak and beech. Windsor
Forest, covering upwards of 50,000 ac., lies in the E.
(For agricultural statistics, see Appendix.) The Thames
flows along the entire N. boundary (100 miles in extent);
its tributaries are the Kennet, Lambourn, Ock, and
Loddon. The mfrs. are unimportant, being chiefly agri-
cultural implements and malt. The Great Western Ry.,
the Thames, and 2 canals are the chief means of transit.
The co. contains 20 hundreds, 193 pars, with parts of
4 others, the pari, and mun. bors. of Reading (1 member)
and New Windsor (1 member), the mun. bors. of Maiden-
head, Newbury, and Wallingford, and the greater part
of the mun. bor. of Abingdon. It is almost entirely in
the diocese of Oxford. For parliamentary purposes it
is divided into 3 divisions, viz., Northern or Abingdon,
Southern or Newbury, and Eastern or Wokingham,

1 member for each division.

Bermess, vil., Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire.
Bermondsey, par. and ry. sta., Southwark bor., E.
Surrey, forming a SE. suburb of London, 627 ac., pop.
86,652; extensive wool stores, tanneries, and wharves.
Berinondspit, hundred, Hants, 17,072ac., pop. 1932.
Berne, locality, Whitchurch-Canonicorum par., W.
Dorset, 4¼ miles NW. of Bridport.

Bernera, island and quoad sacra par., Harris par.,
Outer Hebrides, Inverness-shire, pop. 452.

Berneray, island, Barra par., Inverness-shire, at S.
extremity of Outer Hebrides, pop. 72.

Bernera Barracks, military ruins, W. Inverness-
shire, near Glenelg vil.

Bernera, Great and Little, 2 islands, in Uig par.,
off NW. side of Lewis island, Ross-shire, between Lochs
Roag and Bernera. G. B. is 5¼ miles by 3¼ miles, and
on its shore are some interesting stone circles. L. B.
is a small island to the W. of G. B. Pop. 596 ; P.O.

Berners Roothiug, par., NW. Essex, 6 miles NE. of
Ongar ry. sta., 1073 ac., pop. 86.

Berney Arms, sta. on Great Eastern Ry., Norfolk,
3¼ miles NE. of Norwich.

Bernisdale, hamlet, Snizort par., Isle of Skye, Inver-
ness-shire.

Bernwood, ancient forest, around Brill, on borders
of Bucks and Oxfordshire.

Bcrrach, hamlet, Llanfihangel Aberbythych par.,
SE. Carmarthenshire, 2 miles SW. of Llandilofawr.

Bcrrick Prior, liberty, Newington par., S. Oxford-
shire, 4 miles NE. of Wallingford, pop. 181.

Gazetteer of the British Isles, Statistical and Topographical, by John Bartholomew, F.R.G.S.

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