His attitude towards Eliot shifted, from someone who would mind the Eliots ' cat in his cottage ( near Reading, Berkshire, in 1921 ), and to whom Eliot could confide his self-diagnosis of abulia.

To the east, Route 8, which was also a New England Interstate Route, passes through the village of Berkshire towards North Adams.

A satirical 18th century song, " The Vicar of Bray ", recounts the career of a vicar of Bray, Berkshire, towards the end of this period and his contortions of principle in order to retain his ecclesiastic office despite the changes through the course of several monarchs from Charles II to George I.

Knighted in 1916, Sir Alfred displayed extensive philanthropic tendencies throughout his later years, donating towards: a convalescent home on the Isle of Dogs for the benefit of children ; residences for soldiers ' widows in Hampstead Garden Suburb ( the Barnett Homestead, Erskine Hill ); a school, Bearwood College, in Berkshire ; a home and hospital for children in Broadstairs, Kent ; a scholarship at University College London ; a gallery at Oundle School in Northamptonshire ; and medical research at the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, among other noble causes.

View down Shepherd's Hill ( A4 road ( England ) | A4 ) towards Reading, Berkshire | Reading

While the Rensselaer County segment follows a mostly east – west routing, the Berkshire Connector in Columbia County takes on a northwest-southeast alignment as the roadway heads towards exit B2 in East Chatham.

Once in Berkshire it adopts its final name of Foudry Brook before flowing through Mortimer and onward towards Swallowfield, here it is prevented by slightly higher ground from joining the River Loddon, so instead it turns North towards the town of Reading.

The river continues meandering its way across open farmland towards Brimpton Common, at Inwood Copse, however, a change in the landscape sends the river to the Northeast, and here it no longer forms the border between Hampshire and Berkshire, but instead it spears into the heart of Berkshire and to the River Kennet near Aldermaston Wharf.

He moved to Reading towards the end of the 1997-98 season, spending one season at the Berkshire club, and in nine league games he scored once against Luton Town ( in the first game at the Madejski Stadium ), before injury ended his playing career.

Further upstream towards the Berkshire bank are the Gibraltar Islands which lie in front of Quarry Wood.

Almost a half mile long border exists with Berkshire County, Massachusetts in the extreme northern end of the county.

The southern end of the Trail begins at the entrance to the Berkshire Mall off Route 8 in Lanesborough and travels 11 miles north to the center of Adams.

Otis lies in the southern end of the Berkshire Mountains, and is dotted by several hills.

The County Council in Berkshire, supported by local councils, estimated that £ 1, 275, 000 was needed for works at the eastern end of the canal and commenced work on replacing some of the bridges.

In most cases these consist of simple truncation, usually with an " s " at the end signifying " shire ", such as " Berks " for Berkshire or " Bucks " for Buckinghamshire.

The town is also home to Southern Berkshire District Court, as well as Fairview Hospital, the largest hospital in the southern end of the county ( Based on the number of beds ).

The Berkshire Thruway opened on May 26, 1959, connecting the west end to the New York State Thruway mainline south of Albany.

In 1945, after the war's end, Portal retired from the RAF and on 12 October 1945 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Portal of Hungerford, of Hungerford in the County of Berkshire, with remainder, failing male issue of his own, to his daughters and their male heirs.

Towards the end of his life, he was elected president of the prestigious British Racing Drivers ' Club, which post he still held at the time of his death from cancer on 22 October 1993, at Reading, Berkshire, England.

Just north of Ravena, the Thruway meets the west end of the Berkshire Connector, a spur linking the Thruway mainline to the Massachusetts Turnpike to the east.

In 1990, Radio 210 split frequencies ( as required then to do so by Government due to a radio act recently passed to end simulcasting ) to provide two services-Radio 210 FM ( Now broadcasting as Heart Berkshire ) and 210 Classic Gold Radio.

However, on 24 November 2005 it was announced that after discussions between The Light Infantry and the RGJ, the two would be merged with the Devonshire and Dorset Light Infantry and Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Light Infantry ( RGBW ) by the end of 2007 to form a single large regiment to be called The Rifles.

By convention the Berkshires are confined to Berkshire County at the western end of Massachusetts, however geologically they are a westward continuation of uplands west of the Connecticut River and a southern extension of Vermont's Green Mountains.

The southern end of the trail begins at the entrance to the Berkshire Mall off Route 8 in Lanesborough and travels north to the center of Adams.

A small toll booth for exit B2 on the Berkshire Section of the New York State Thruway, ( I-90 ), marks the administrative end of the Taconic State Parkway, from Kensico Circle.

It did not appear likely that this would happen in any event, between the likely end of the Taconic at the Berkshire section of the Thruway and the recently announced plan to build the Adirondack Northway from Albany to Canada as part of the new Interstate Highway System.

Upon recovering, he returned to play for Berkshire without much success and played several festival games at the end of the season.

Habib was released by Leicestershire at the end of 2006 season, in 2007 he has appeared for Berkshire.

The surname was largely unknown outside of the southeast of County Galway until the end of the 19th century when émigrés established families which still thrive in Newfoundland, Bermuda, Cornwall, Ohio and Berkshire County, Massachusetts, among other places.

The eastern end of the English M4 corridor is home to a large number of technology companies, particularly in Berkshire, Swindon and the Thames Valley.

The section of Berkshire Way ( and the construction of the flyover ) came some years later, allowing traffic to flow from Reading and the M4 past the official end of the motorway onto the Southern and Western industrial areas of Bracknell.

In the early seventeenth century, the endowment of Thomas Tesdale — a merchant from nearby Abingdon — and Richard Wightwick — a clergyman from Berkshire — enabled the conversion of the Broadgates Hall, which had been a University hostel for law students since its construction in the fifteenth century, to form the basis of a fully fledged college.

Berkshire Pleasure Park was a major attraction at the turn of the 19th to 20th century.

His senior descendants, the Dukes of Norfolk, have been Earls Marshal and Premier Peers of England since the 17th century, and male-line descendants hold the Earldoms of Carlisle, Suffolk, Berkshire and Effingham.

* Thomas Fuller and the English dramatist Richard Brome argue that the model for the song was the 16th century cleric and vicar of Bray, Berkshire, Simon Aleyn ( 1540 – 1588 ), who lived in the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary, and Elizabeth.

In early 14th century records, Sandhurst appears as part of township of Sonning, a large minster parish spreading over much of eastern Berkshire, which later became a hundred when its villages obtained their own churches.

In southern England they started their expansion in Sussex ( possibly from enclosed stock in Petworth Park ) and from there soon spread into Surrey, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Hampshire and Dorset, and for the first half of the 20th century most roe in southern England were to be found in these counties.

" Eighteenth century parish records for Aldworth, Berkshire, in southern England, show that payments were made for 106 Eurasian Sparrowhawks ' heads, at the same time as efforts were being made to control the numbers of sparrows.

Didcot first appears in historical records in the 13th century as Dudcotte, Berkshire.

It formed part of the 10th century parish structure in east Berkshire and in comparison, the 1000 year old royal castle, although the largest and longest occupied in Europe, is a recent development.

* Bartholomew Tipping IV, late 17th century High Sheriff of Berkshire

* Bartholomew Tipping VII, late 18th century High Sheriff of Berkshire

When the first revival was at its height in the first decade of the 20th century, George Gardiner and Alice Gillington both collected songs in Hampshire, Lucy Broadwood in Surrey, Hampshire and Oxfordshire, Alfred Williams in Oxfordshire and Berkshire and Cecil Sharp in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, and Kent.

* Godric the Sheriff, an 11th century sheriff of Buckinghamshire and Berkshire

The Kedermister Library, at Langley near Slough in the English county of Berkshire ( formerly Buckinghamshire ), is a rare surviving example of an early 17th century parish library, preserved in situ in the decorated cupboards designed for it in 1620 in the parish church of St Mary the Virgin.

The Junior Wing of the Royal Military College, now based at Sandhurst on the border between Berkshire and Surrey, was once based at Remnantz in West Street-it was a mansion built in the early 18th century and served as the junior section of the college from 1801 until 1812.

In the 14th century the atte Water family gave land to Bisham Priory in Berkshire.

In the second half of the 20th century, the descendants of both regiments wore red backing to their cap badges and did so until 2006 when the Light Infantry and the Royal Gloucester, Berkshire and Wiltshire Light Infantry were absorbed by The Rifles.

After Saint Birinus converted the people of Berkshire to Christianity in the mid 7th century, minsters soon became established in the county from which priests were sent out into the countryside.

One of the best county teams in the late 18th century was Berkshire, which no longer has first-class status.

The Kit-Cat Club ( sometimes Kit-Kat Club ) was an early 18th century English club in London with strong political and literary associations, committed to the furtherance of Whig objectives, meeting at the Trumpet tavern in London, and at Water Oakley in the Berkshire countryside.

Wokefield Park is an 18th century country house, now a training centre surrounded by a golf course, in the civil parish of Wokefield, near Mortimer, in the English county of Berkshire.

The Oracle is a large indoor shopping and leisure mall, located on the banks of the River Kennet on the site of a 17th century workhouse of the same name in the town of Reading in the English county of Berkshire.