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