Berkhamstead, a market-town of Hertfordshire, on the small river Bulburn, 28 miles NW. of London. Straw-plaiting is carried on; and there are manufactures of wooden articles and chemicals. The poet Cowper was a native. Pop. 5034.
Berkhamstead
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 93–94
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