The Berkshire Mystery: Where Exactly Is "Berk"?

Yes! Once again this channel asks the important questions. Today, it's the Berkshire Mystery: if York is in Yorkshire, and Oxford is in Oxfordshire, then where exactly is "Berk"? Well in this video, we're going to try and find it. (And along the way, we'll be asking similar questions about "Shrop" and "Wilt", among others...) ALSO STARRING Paul and Rebecca Whitewick - @pwhitewick HISTORICAL SOURCES THAT WE READ SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO Asser's "Life Of King Alfred" (published 983) - https://archive.org/details/asserslifeofking00asseiala/page/xii/mode/2up "The Place-Names of Berkshire; an essay" by F.M. Stenton (1911)- https://archive.org/details/placenamesofberk00sten/page/n11/mode/2up?q=Berroc "The History Of The Norman Conquest Of England, Volume I" by Edward A. Freeman (1877) - https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.500293/page/n611/mode/2up IMAGE CREDITS The Royal Berkshire Hospital by Juan J. Martínez - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Berkshire_Hospital_3.jpg Shrewsbury Castle by Julian Nyča - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shrewsbury_Schloss.JPG Welcome to Shropshire sign by Peter Whatley - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Welcome_to_Shropshire_-_geograph.org.uk_-_2559379.jpg Norm MacDonald - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Norm_MacDonald_(26378045703)_(cropped).jpg Norman Wisdom - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Wisdom#/media/File:Norman_Wisdom_2_(1965).jpg Norman Schwarzkopf - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NormanSchwarzkopf.jpg Greg Norman - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greg_Norman_2014.jpg Jessye Norman - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jessye_Norman-_In_Conversation_with_Tom_Hall_(15977754135)_(cropped).jpg