Vale of Berkeley

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

The Vale of Berkeley was originally inhabited by a British tribe called the Dobuni³ 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