Berkeley

Berkeley is the name of several places, all eventually deriving from Berkeley Castle in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, UK, from whom the noble family of Berkeley derive their name, and for which several vessels of the British Royal Navy have been christened "HMS Berkeley Castle". Any of the holders of several titles in the British Peerage may be known as Lord Berkeley, including Baron Berkeley. There are also the Berkeley Baronets. The former Berkeley House, London, has given its name to Berkeley Square, London, which inspired a 1933 movie Berkeley Square which inspired a TV miniseries, "Berkeley Square". "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" is a popular British song.

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In the US there are numerous places named Berkeley. They honour either Sir William Berkeley, governor of Virginia and co-proprietor of New Jersey, in whose honour Berkeley Plantation in Tidewater Viginia was named; or Bishop George Berkeley.

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• Berkeley, California
• "Berkeley" may refer to the University of California, Berkeley, also known as "UC Berkeley" or "Cal"; not to be confused with Berkeley College, which is not Berkeley College, Yale, nor the Berklee College of Music.
• the Berkeley Mafia of Indonesian economists, trained at UC Berkeley
• the Berkeley Lower Extremity Exoskeleton, a robotic prosthesis, also developed there.
• Berkeley, Illinois
• Berkeley, Missouri
• Berkeley, Virginia
• Berkeley Heights, New Jersey
• Berkeley Lake, Georgia
• Berkeley Township, New Jersey
• Berkeley County, South Carolina
• Berkeley County, West Virginia

In Canada there is:

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• Berkeley, Ontario

see also places named Berkley, reflecting the American pronunciation.

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Berkeley is a surname of:

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• "Anthony Berkeley" a pseudonym of Anthony Berkeley Cox, writer
• Busby Berkeley, film choreographer
• Elizabeth Berkeley, wife of Charles Noel Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort
• Bishop George Berkeley, idealist philosopher
• Humphry Berkeley, politician
• Sir Lennox Berkeley, composer
• Michael Berkeley, composer and son of Sir Lennox
• Miles Joseph Berkeley, botanist
• Theresa Berkeley, London
• Sir William Berkeley
• Xander Berkeley, actor

In addition, Berkeley may refer to:

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• either of two British car manufacturers (see Berkeley cars).
• Berkeley DB, an embedded database system by Sleepycat Software.
• Berkeley Fast File System.
• Berkeley Software Distribution
• the Berkeley Pit, a former copper mine in Butte, Montana, the largest Superfund site.
• the USS Berkeley (DDG-15), named for General Randolph Carter Berkeley USMC, a Virginian.
• the Berkeley Carroll School, a private school in Brooklyn, New York City.

Places in England and English people called Berkeley are pronounced // while American places named Berkeley are pronounced // possibly by derivation from an Irish pronunciation, //.

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Berkeley Castle: Berkeley Castle is a castle in the town of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, UK, constructed from 1117 on the orders of Henry II with the aim of defending the Severn estuary and the Welsh border....

Berkeley, Gloucestershire: Berkeley is a town between the south bank of the River Severn and the M5 motorway in Gloucestershire, UK, at . The town is located mid-way between Bristol and Gloucester and is built on a small hill in the Vale of Berkeley. The town is noted for Berkeley Castle where the imprisoned Edward II was mur...

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