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Berkshire

Berkshire
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About Berkshire

Berkshire, officially the Royal County of Berkshire, is a ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Oxfordshire to the north, Buckinghamshire to the north-east, Greater London to the east, Surrey to the south-east, Hampshire to the south, and Wiltshire to the west. Reading is the largest settlement and the county town.

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It was filmed in a place called Greenham Common, which is in Berkshire, which is just down the road from here. What is amazing about Greenham Common is that there was a protest there in the 80s and they were going to put a load of nuclear weapons there.

from No Such Thing As Sexy Toda Milkman Time, 2021-10-29 at 00:36:09 · read transcript

Other times Berkshire came up

  1. Then the civil war came and everyone forgot about the camels. They just wandered feral through the deserts. They were sort of like the, you know, when people see big cats these days in a garden, in Berkshire. They were that equivalent in Arizona. There was, in the 1880s, Arizona was haunted by a red ghost, which was a 30-foot-tall, monstrous red camel, which apparently trampled a woman to death. 30-foot-tall.

    No Such Thing As The Gunfight At The Amazing Corral, 2021-01-29 · listen

  2. Then the Civil War came and everyone forgot about the camels and they just wandered feral through the deserts. They were all they were sort of like that, you know, when people see big cats these days in a garden in Berkshire, they were that equivalent in Arizona. There was in the 1880s, Arizona was haunted by a red ghost, which was a 30 foot tall, monstrous red camel, which apparently trampled the woman to death, 30 foot tall.

    358: No Such Thing As The Gunfight At The Amazing Corral, 2021-01-29 · listen

  3. They held hands for 14 miles all the way from their camp to a place called Older Mastin. Isn't that amazing? That's why no one has nuclear weapons anymore. That is why they don't have nuclear weapons in Berkshire anymore. May the 4th be with you when it's May the 4th, and it's Star Wars Day, and we all say that. Maybe you all say that.

    397: No Such Thing As Sexy Toda Milkman Time, 2021-10-29 · listen

  4. The Scottish ones just loved the English actually throughout history, yeah. Yeah, but let's try and get out of here alive. Everyone's from Berkshire, it's fine. In 1282, apparently King Edward of England decided to get rid of all the bards in Wales because he was worried that they might cause Insurrection among the Welsh And apparently he had a massacre of 500 bards How did he lure them all to the same place?

    547: No Such Thing As A Mystic Beluga, 2024-09-05 · listen

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