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Berkeley Castle

British  
/ ˈbɑːklɪ /

noun

  1. a castle in Gloucestershire: scene of the murder of Edward II in 1327

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Nigel Adams, 45, was arrested by Avon and Somerset Police at Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire, where he was filming a scene for the TV show.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2025

If we accept 1340 as Chaucer's birth date, as most of us do, he couldn't have lived under Edward II, who was murdered in Berkeley Castle in 1327.

From Time Magazine Archive

Who is the first historian that tells the story of his being shaven with cold water from a ditch and weeping to supply warm, as he was carried to Berkeley Castle?

From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Walpole, Horace

As to my escape, I can go to Windsor, and then perhaps on to Berkeley Castle, over by Reading, where there will be no one to watch me.

From When Knighthood Was in Flower or, the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth by Major, Charles

Berkeley Castle lies just on the left of it, but is buried in the trees.

From Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 by Hoar, George Frisbie

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