Berkshire Sentence Examples

Bishop Memorial Training School for nurses, the Berkshire Home for aged women, the Berkshire Athenaeum, containing the public library, the Crane Art Museum and a Young Men's Christian Association.

Prominent buildings are St Joseph's Cathedral and the buildings of the Berkshire Life Insurance Company, the Agricultural National Bank and the Berkshire County Savings Bank.

Hitherto from Oxford its course, though greatly winding, has lain generally in a southerly direction, but it now bends eastward, and breaches the chalk hills in a narrow gap, dividing the Chilterns from the downs of Berkshire or White Horse Hills.

Meanwhile he became archdeacon of Berkshire (1673), prebendary of Norwich, rector of St Giles's-in-theFields, and in 1681 dean of Norwich.

In 1708 he quitted office with Harley on the failure of the latter's intrigue, and retired to the country till 1710, when he became a privy councillor and secretary of state in Harley's new ministry, representing Berkshire in parliament.

He died on the 12th of January 1781, and was buried at Milton, Berkshire.

But in the derivant valley peneplains developed in the present cycle of denudation, and there are residual summits also; in the Connecticut Valley trap ridges, of which Mt Tom and Mt Holyoke are the best examples; at Mt Holyoke, lava necks; occasionally in the lowlands, ridges of resistant sandstone, like Deerfield Mountain near Northampton; in the Berkshire Valley, summits of resistant schists, like Greylock, the highest summit in the state.

The Berkshire country - Berkshire, Hampden, Hampshire and Franklin counties - is among the most beautiful regions of the United States.

Encouraged by these and other conventions in order to obstruct the collection of debts and taxes, a mob prevented a session of the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace at Northampton on the 29th of August, and in September other mobs prevented the same court from sitting in Worcester, Middlesex and Berkshire counties.

Subsequently the insurgents gathered in small bands in Berkshire county; but here, a league having been formed to assist the government, 84 insurgents were captured at West Stockbridge, and the insurrection practically terminated in an action at Sheffield on the 27th of February, in which the insurgents lost 2 killed and 30 wounded and the militia 2 killed and 1 wounded.

Mallary, Lenox and the Berkshire Highlands (New York-London, 1902); also Inland Massachusetts, Illustrated...

Reading was surveyed and laid out as a town in 1748, in accordance with the plans of Thomas and Richard Penn, sons of William Penn, and was named Reading after the county town of Berkshire, England.

Pigs, mostly of the Yorkshire, Berkshire and Tamworth breeds, are reared and fattened in large numbers, and there is a valuable export trade in bacon.

To this category belong the shires of Wessex (Hampshire, Wiltshire, Berkshire, &c.), each of which had an earl (aldormon, princeps, dux) of its own, at all events from the 8th century onwards.

Retiring to Shottesbrooke in Berkshire, and living on the produce of a small estate in Ireland, he devoted himself to the study of chronology and ecclesiastical polity.

His reign was marked by two serious attacks on the part of the Danes, who destroyed Winchester in 860, in spite of the resistance of the ealdormen Osric and Æthelwulf with the levies of Hampshire and Berkshire, while in 865 they treacherously ravaged Kent.

It crosses well with the Large White, the Large Black and the Berkshire.

The Berkshire is a black pig with a pinkish skin, and a little white on the nose, forehead, pasterns, and tip to the tail.

The Berkshire is an early-maturity breed which has been somewhat Middle White Boar.

It is a black pig like the Berkshire, but has short lop-ears, a more pointed, straight nose, a more compact body, and more white markings.

In Iowa the Berkshire is a combined lard and bacon pig in high favour.

The enemy were repulsed in about twenty minutes, the naval brigade, the Berkshire regiment, the Royal Marines, and the 15th Sikhs showing the greatest gallantry.

English local tradition placed Wayland Smith's forge in a cave close to the White Horse in Berkshire.

The hue and cry was out against him; henceforth he led a hunted life, preaching and ministering to Catholics in Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire and Lancashire.

On his way to Norfolk he stopped at Lyford in Berkshire, where he preached on the 14th of July and the following day, yielding to the foolish importunity of some pious women.

In the north of Hampshire along its boundary with Surrey and Berkshire, in the southern half of Wiltshire (where rises the upland of Salisbury Plain), in Dorsetshire, and the south of Somersetshire, the hills may be said to run in a series of connected groups.

It thus occupies parts of Wiltshire, Hampshire, Surrey, Kent, Berkshire, Hertfordshire, the whole of Middlesex, the county of London and Essex, and the eastern edge of Suffolk and Norfolk.

Most of the eastern part of England is " arable," while the western and northern part is " grass," the boundary between the sections being the western limit of Hampshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, and of the East Riding of Yorkshire.

There is also plenty of hillpasture in the south-western counties (from Hampshire and Berkshire westward), especially in Devonshire, Cornwall and Somersetshire, and also in Monmouthshire and along the Welsh marches, on the Cotteswold Hills, &c. In all these localities sheep are extensively reared, especially in Northumberland, but on the other hand in Lincolnshire the numbers of sheep are roughly equal to those in the northern county.

The counties comprising the greatest proportional amount of woodland fall into two distinct groups - Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex and Kent, with Berkshire and Buckinghamshire; Monmouth, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire.

Foreseeing, as is probable, the impending fall of the former, Swift retired to Upper Letcombe, in Berkshire, and there spent some weeks in the strictest seclusion.

Early in the 19th century the old Wiltshire white-faced horned sheep, with a scanty coat of hairy wool, and the Berkshire Knot, roamed over the downs of their native counties.

He was born in Massachusetts, studied medicine at the Berkshire Medical School, and had had political experience in California, whither he had gone in 1849, and where in1850-1852he was a member of the legislature and a successful anti-slavery leader.

The Servian pig is pure white or black, but other breeds, notably the Berkshire and Yorkshire, are kept.

The picturesque old town stands on a hill overlooking the Gloucestershire borders, the White Horse Vale and Lambourn Down in Berkshire, and the great chalk uplands of Marlborough; while the camps of Blunsdon, Ringsbury, Barbury and Badbury are all visible.

According to the Chronicle he invaded Wessex as far as Ashdown in Berkshire in the year 661.

Also in is Neston seam bowler Chris Finegan who played in the drawn game against Berkshire.

B orn at Reading in Berkshire, William Laud was the tenth son of a prosperous clothier.

Wendy's Chocolate Fountain Company UK Based in Berkshire Area Served South of England Put a smile and chocolate on everyones lips!

Last night West Berkshire council gave planning consent to the project, removing the last bureaucratic obstacle to construction of the laser.

We also produce a perry - a rare enough drink anywhere and almost unheard of in Berkshire.

A new power plant being built for waste firms Grundon and Viridor at Colnbrook in Berkshire is a stone that kills two birds.

However, due to a few loyal stalwarts, the Berkshire survived.

Hollie Alexander (aged 8) from Berkshire won the competition to design the 2007 togs for Dogs logo, pictured left.

How to buy A research service is available from the Berkshire Family History Society for both the unchecked 1871 and 1861 census transcripts.

Meanwhile BBC Radio Berkshire has introduced irritating little jingles to make its amateur breakfast news readers appear even more unprofessional.

Another brother, George Vansittart (1745-1825), of Bisham Abbey, Berkshire, was the father of General George Henry Vansittart (1768-1824) and of Vice-Admiral Henry Vansittart (1777-1843).

The first considerable improvement in the practice of that period was introduced by Jethro Tull, a gentleman of Berkshire, who about the year 1701 invented the drill, and whose Horse- 1 Chalmers' Caledonia, vol.

The Thames forms part of the Gloucestershire-Wiltshire boundary to a point below Lechlade; thence for a short distance it separates Gloucestershire from Berkshire; after which it separates successively Oxfordshire and Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire, Middlesex and Surrey, and finally, at its estuary, Essex and Kent.

His reign was marked by two serious attacks on the part of the Danes, who destroyed Winchester in 860, in spite of the resistance of the ealdormen Osric and Æthelwulf with the levies of Hampshire and Berkshire, while in 865 they treacherously ravaged Kent.

Set in the heart of the beautiful Berkshire countryside, this country house is the perfect retreat for relaxation in blissful surroundings.

Community responders are being set up all across rural West Berkshire, with the help of the South Central NHS Ambulance Trust.

Was killed in action No. 1915 by a rifle grenade whilst handing over to the Royal Berkshire Regt at Vermelles.

Hollie Alexander (aged 8) from Berkshire won the competition to design the 2007 Togs for Dogs logo, pictured left.

The initial store simply sold clothing and other surplus items manufactured by both Berkshire and Vanity Fair.

The company expanded over the years and was acquired by Berkshire Hathaway in 2000.

Ricky Dene Gervais was born on June 25, 1961, in Reading, Berkshire, England.

Hodge teaches music at Berkshire Community College where he has created a program that started out as a singles' beginner's guitar course.

Hodge also teaches at Berkshire Music School and privately instructs around thirty students.

If you're in the Massachusetts area, you can try to look up David Hodge and get yourself some private instruction or enroll in his classes at Berkshire Community College or Berkshire Music School.

Berkshire make some of the most popular queen size pantyhose.

Mortgage Corporation is a division of Berkshire Hathaway.

The Houghton Mansion in North Adams, MA is home to the Berkshire Paranormal Institute.

Canyon Ranch - With two locations - one in Tucson Arizona and one in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts, this spa company emphasizes a lifestyle approach to wellness.

The Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts is home to the Kripalu Center, a massive yoga and health retreat.

After several decades of solid growth, Geico became a subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway investment firm in 1995.

In 1996, Geico became a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, which is run by Warren Buffet.

One of the most well-known companies that are known for general reinsurance is called Gen Re, which is a subdivision of Berkshire Hathaway.

Buffet's company Berkshire Hathaway purchased the virtually insolvent company, keeping one of the most widely recognized brand names around the globe, in business.

There, you'll find the very popular name brand, Berkshire, in tan.

He stayed in a rented cottage in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts owned by William Aspinwall Tappan.

After members of the orchestra, invited by Berkshire seasonal residents, played in 1934 and 1935 at nearby Interlocken, the entire ensemble came to play the following year.

In addition to these, the grounds also include the Theatre-Concert Hall, built in 1941 to accompany the formerly named Berkshire Music Center.

The menu includes sugar cane-skewered sea scallops, chorizo-crusted berkshire pork chop, grilled painted hills hanger steak, butter-poached halibut and porcini-crusted painted hills filet mignon.

Thomas, son of the fourth duke of Norfolk's marriage with the daughter and heir of Thomas, Lord Audley of Walden, founded the line of the present earls of Suffolk and Berkshire and of the extinct Lords Howard of Escrick.

But three earls of his own house - Carlisle, Suffolk and Berkshire - and the Lord Howard of Escrick, an ex-trooper of Cromwell's guard and an anabaptist sectary, gave their votes against him, his nephew Mowbray being the only peer of his name in the minority for acquittal.

See Victoria County History, Berkshire; Joseph Stevenson, Chronicon Monasterii de Abingdon, A.D.

The interests of pig-breeders are the care of the National Pig Breeders' Association, in addition to which there exist the British Berkshire, the Large Black Pig, and the Lincoln CurlyCoated White Pig Societies, and the Incorporated Tamworth Pig Breeders' Association.

The village is the nearest station to Greylock, which can be easily ascended, and affords fine views of the Hoosac and Housatonic valleys, the Berkshire Hills and the Green Mountains; the mountain has been a state timber reservation since 1898.

An old Indian trail between the Hudson and Connecticut valley ran through the township, and was once a leading outlet of the Berkshire country.

Almost half of the highland towns reached their maximum population before the opening of the, 9th century, although Berkshire was scarcely settled till after 1760, and three-fourths of them before 1850.

Under two kings named Halfdan and Bacsceg, and six earls, they seized Reading and began to harry Berkshire, Surrey and Hampshire.