Description
Berkley, a parish in Somersetshire, 2 miles ENE of Frome station on the G.W.R. It includes part of the tithing of Old Ford. Post town, Frome; money order and telegraph office, Beckington. Acreage, 1981; population of the civil parish, 346; of the ecclesiastical, 336. Berkley House is in the neighbourhood. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; net value, £280 with residence. The church is good.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
