Obs. Also 6 bery, 7 berry. [Originally dative of burh: see BOROUGH 1 b.] A manor house, or large farm; a specialization of the OE. birh, byriʓ ‘an enclosed or fortified place’ which still survives in many local names.
1175–1576. [see BOROUGH 1 b].
1598. Stow, Surv., xxxiii. (1603), 294. The name of Aldermans burie (which is to say a Court) there kept in their Bery or Court-hall.
1654. Gayton, Festiv. Notes, III. vi. 106. They went untill they came to a Bury.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Berry … The chief house of a Mannor, or the Lords seat is so called … to this day; especially, in Herefordshire, where there are the Berries of Luston, Stockton, &c.
