Vale of Berkeley
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The Vale of Berkeley (sometimes known as Berkeley Vale) is an area in Gloucestershire, England.[1] It lies between the River Severn and the Cotswold Edge, north of Bristol and south of Gloucester. It includes the towns of Berkeley, Thornbury, Cam, Dursley, Wotton-under-Edge and surrounding villages.
Vale of Berkeley College was a comprehensive school at Wanswell, just north of Berkeley, which closed in 2010.
The Vale of Berkeley Railway is a heritage line, with hopes to reopen the Sharpness branch line.[2]
History
[edit | edit source]The Vale of Berkeley was originally inhabited by a British tribe called the Dobuni[3] during pre-Roman Britain. During 45 AD, the Roman general Aulus Plautius made a treaty with the Dobuni for peace from the Catuvellauni in exchange for submission to the Roman Empire.[4]
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