Berkshire (Saxon, Bearoc - scire, forest-shire)
,a name peculiarly appropriate to this county, which contains the forest districts of Windsor and Bagshot.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.