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Towns & Parishes
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From Cassell's
Gazetteer of Great
Britain and Ireland, 1899
Transcribed by Paul Brazell ©2005
"Berkshire, an inland
county of England, on the south bank
of the River Thames, having Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire on the
north, Hampshire on the south, Surrey on the south-east, and Wiltshire
on the west. Berkshire is irregular in shape, with an extreme length of
[53] miles from east to west, and an extreme breadth of 30 miles from
north to south, and an area of 462,210 acres. There is a chalk ridge
running through the county, joining the Chiltern Hills and the
Marlborough Downs...
The county has three parliamentary divisions (returning each one
member), seven municipal boroughs, twenty hundreds, and one hundred and
ninety-three parishes...
The historic castle and royal borough of Windsor require a special
notice. Berkshire had a great share in the [English] Civil War, two
battles having been fought at Newbury, Reading having been besieged,
and attacks made on Windsor Castle, Abingdon and Donnington. There are
many ancient churches with good examples of Norman and later
architectural periods, and mitred Benedictine abbots lived at Reading
and Abingdon respectively."
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