Descriptive gazetteer entries

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
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
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

Travel writing

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.
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
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