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Berkeley

Historical Geography
Maps
Military History
Probate Records
Societies

Archives and Libraries

Original source material relating to Berkeley, and other parishes in Diocese of Gloucester may be found at the Gloucestershire Archives.

Churches

Anglican
St Mary, Berkeley, Church of England

You can also perform a more selective search for churches in the Berkeley area or see them printed on a map.

Church Records

Scribes Alcove - a site to enable searches of baptism, marriage and burial indexes from six Gloucestershire parishes: Berkeley, Thornbury, Oldbury-upon-Severn, Hill, Stone & Rockhampton.
The period covered for St Mary's Church is 1700-1900CMB (except 1790-1801M).

Description and Travel

You can see pictures of Berkeley which are provided by:

Gazetteers

The transcription of the section for Berkeley from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

Ask for a calculation of the distance from Berkeley to another place.

Click here for a list of nearby places.

Historical Geography

"Ancient parish included Alkington, Breadstone, Hamfallow, Hinton, Ham and Stone, which all remain in (the) modern ecclesiastical parish except Stone. Alkington, Hamfallow, Hinton and Ham & Stone are all civil parishes since 1894."
(Ref: Guide to the Parish Records of the City of Bristol and the County of Gloucester; I. Gray & E. Ralph, 1963)

You can see the administrative areas in which Berkeley has been placed at times in the past. Select one to see a link to a map of that particular area.

Maps

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference ST684994 (Lat/Lon: 51.692033, -2.458706), Berkeley which are provided by:

This place shown on an OpenStreetMap map.
Google Streetview
StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
OpenStreetMap
Bing (was Multimap)
OldMaps (Old Ordnance Survey maps.)
Old Maps Online (Other old maps.)
National Library of Scotland (Best site for old maps)
Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
Elgin Road Works
GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

Military History

Information about Berkeley Castle is available as part of the Camelot International site featuring Castles and Historic Houses. Berkeley Castle is open to the public.

Probate Records

Abstracts from Berkeley, Stone & Hill WILLS 1541 - 1571, transcribed by Leslie Mahler.

Societies

Berkeley Local History Society. Added 24 Feb 2006.