Berkshire, a midland county of England, with a fertile, well-cultivated soil on a chalk bottom, in the upper valley of the Thames, one of the smallest but most beautiful counties in the country. In the E. part of it is Windsor Forest, and in the SE. Bagshot Heath. It is famous for its breed of pigs.
Population (circa 1900) given as 238,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Berkeley, George * Berlichingen, Goetz vonBerkshire in Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable
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