BERKELEY, a market-town of the hundred of Berkeley, in the county of Gloucester, 113 miles from London, on the river Little Avon, in one of the richest dairy districts of England. It gives title to the ancient family of this name, whose magnificent castle here has been long celebrated in English history. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 658, in 1811 to 716, and in 1821 to 836.