Berrier

{{Short description|Hamlet in Cumbria, England}}

{{for|the surname|Berrier (surname)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}

{{Use British English|date=June 2025}}

{{Infobox UK place

| country = England

| static_image = Berrier, Cumbria - geograph.org.uk - 1214693.jpg

| static_image_caption = Berrier

| coordinates = {{coord|54.65|-02.93|display=inline,title}}

| official_name = Berrier

| population =

| civil_parish = Mungrisdale

|unitary_england= Westmorland and Furness

|lieutenancy_england= Cumbria

| region = North West England

| constituency_westminster = Westmorland and Lonsdale

| post_town = PENRITH

| postcode_district = CA11

| postcode_area = CA

| dial_code = 017684

| os_grid_reference = NY4029

| pushpin_map = United Kingdom Eden

| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Eden, Cumbria

| label_position =

}}

Berrier is a hamlet in Cumbria, England. It is in the civil parish of Mungrisdale, which is made up of eight hamlets and had a population of 297 in the 2011 United Kingdom census.{{NOMIS2011|id=E04002557|title=Mungrisdale Parish|access-date=11 April 2021}} The civil parish of Berrier and Murrah existed from 1866 to 1934, Murrah being a nearby hamlet.{{cite web |title=Berrier and Murrah |url=https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10117938 |website=Vision of Britain |access-date=31 December 2021}}{{cite web |last1=Apperley |first1=Eric |title=Berrier and Murrah, 1900 (map) |url=https://www.cumbriacountyhistory.org.uk/sites/default/files/township/documents/Berrier%20%26%20Murrah%20%281900%29.pdf |access-date=31 December 2021}}

Etymology

Berrier means {{Gloss|hill shieling}} – from Old English (OE) {{Lang|ang-latn|berg}} {{Gloss|hill}}, and Old Norse (ON) {{Lang|non-latn|erg}} {{Gloss|shieling, hill pasture}}.

Murrah is "a compound of OE {{Lang|ang-latn|mōr}}, 'marsh', and ON {{Lang|non-latn|(v)rá}}, {{Gloss|nook, corner}}."{{Cite book|last=Armstrong|first=A. M.|last2=Mawer|first2=A.|last3=Stenton|first3=F. M.|last4=Dickens|first4=B.|title=The place-names of Cumberland|volume=Part 1|series=English Place-Name Society, vol.xx|location=Cambridge|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1950|page=181}}

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