Berrick Salome

Berrick Salome
St Helen's parish church from the south
Berrick Salome is located in Oxfordshire
Berrick Salome
Berrick Salome
Location within Oxfordshire
Area2.95 km2 (1.14 sq mi)
Population326 (parish, including Berrick Prior, Roke and Rokemarsh) (2011 Census)
• Density111/km2 (290/sq mi)
OS grid referenceSU6293
Civil parish
  • Berrick Salome
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townWallingford
Postcode districtOX10
Dialling code01865
PoliceThames Valley
FireOxfordshire
AmbulanceSouth Central
UK Parliament
WebsiteBerrick and Roke Village Website
List of places
UK
England
Oxfordshire
51°38′38″N 1°06′14″W / 51.644°N 1.104°W / 51.644; -1.104

Berrick Salome /ˈbɛrɪk ˈsæləm/[1] is a village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England, about 3 miles (5 km) north of Wallingford. Since the 1992 boundary changes, the parish has included the whole of Roke and Rokemarsh (previously largely in the parish of Benson) and Berrick Prior (previously part of the parish of Newington). The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 326.[2] In 1965, Reginald Ernest Moreau (1897–1970), an eminent ornithologist, and a Berrick Salome resident from 1947, realized that he could build up a picture of the village as it had been in the decades before the First World War, based on the recollections of elderly villagers. His study, which was published in 1968 as The Departed Village: Berrick Salome at the Turn of the Century, also included an introduction to local history. This provided much of the information for "A Village History" which appeared in The Berrick and Roke Millennium Book[3] and is the major source for this article.

  1. ^ Miller 1971, p. 14.
  2. ^ "Area: Berrick Salome (Parish): Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
  3. ^ MillenniumBook 1999, pp. 9–12. (S Radice)