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Extract from the Berkeley Travel Guides:
Though quite secluded within a swathe of meadows and neat gardens,
Berkeley Castle
(April & May Tues-Sun 2-5pm; June & Sept Tues-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 2-5pm; July & Aug Mon-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 2-5pm; Oct Sun 2-5pm; 5.70; grounds only 2) dominates the little village of
BERKELEY
, five miles southwest of Slimbridge on the A38. The fortress has an agreeably turreted medieval look, the robust twelfth-century walls softened by later accretions acquired in its gradual transformation into a family home. The interior is packed with mementoes of its long history, including its grisliest moment in 1327, when Edward II was...
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