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{{Places of Interest|title=Berhampore |name=Berhampore Berhampore |link=http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=211401480495186034184.0004bbe4dcb68927d64ce&ie=UTF8&t=m&z=16&vpsrc=1}} '''Berhampore''' is situated on the Hooghly River, around 120 miles upstream of [[Calcutta]]. It was one of the early HEIC factories and a British cantonment. It is was the headquarters of the principal town in [[Murshidabad District]]in the Rajshahi division of Bengal during the British period.

Variants: Berhampore/Berhampur/Brahmapur/Burhanpore

After the [[Battle of Plassey]] in June 1757, Berhampore was chosen as the site "of the chief military station for Bengal; and a huge square of brick barracks was erected in 1767".<ref>[http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Berhampur,_Murshidabad,_India Berhampur, Murshidabad, India] Lovetoknow 1911 encyclopedia (Accessed 05/01/2010)</ref> The town continued as a cantonment until 1870.

*[http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/other/019pzz000003094u00000000.html 'View of the Cantonments at Berhampore'] Aquatint, drawn and engraved by James Moffat, published Calcutta 1806. First established in around 1767. British Library Online Gallery.*[https://web.archive.org/web/20181125195125/https://livelystories.com/history/the-barracks-of-berhampore/ "The barracks of Berhampore"], livelystories.com, now archived.*[http://murshidabad.net/history/places-topic-places-zone-one.htm Places to visit - Berhampore]. Scroll down to the Berhampore Cantonment and Berhampore Cemetery. murshidabad.net*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residency_Cemetery,_Babulbona Residency Cemetery, Babulbona] Wikipedia.*[http://www.asikolkata.in/murshidabad.aspx#Residency Residency Cemetery also known as Station Burial Ground] Babulbona, Baharampur. Archaeological Survey of India asikolkata.in. "...this huge European Cemetery is one of the historical relics of Baharampur". ===Historical books online===*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?volume=8&objectid=DS405.1.I34_V08_007.gif Berhampore] ''Imperial Gazetteer''<br>*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=zCsoAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA245 "Mofussil Stations: No VIII Berhampore"] [No VII according to the Contents page] page 245, ''The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany'', Vol 11, New Series, May-Aug 1833. Google Books.*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=oKAEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA290 The cantonment at Berhampore], page 290 ''Army Medical Department: Report for the Year 1862'' Google Books*[https://archive.org/stream/b21452404#page/352/mode/2up Berhampore] page 353 ''Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Sanitary State of the Army in India : with Abstract of Evidence, and of Reports Received from Indian Military Stations'' 1864 Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/murshidabadbylss00omaluoft/page/174 "Berhampore"] page 174 ''Bengal District Gazetteers: Murshidabad'' by L.S.S. O'Malley 1914. Archive.org