In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Baulking like this:
BALKING, or Baulking, anciently Bethelking, a hamlet and a chapelry in Uffington parish, Berks. The hamlet stands near the Great Western railway, and the Berks and Wilts canal, 3 miles W by N of Faringdon Road r. station, and 4 SSE of Faringdon. It was for merly a market town; and its Post Town is Uffington under Faringdon. The chapelry contains 1,443 acres. Real property, £2,184. Pop., 181. Houses, 41. The property is not much divided. The living is a vicarage united to Woolstone, in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £78. Patron,Eyre, Esq. The church is good.
Baulking through time
Baulking is now part of Vale of White Horse district. Click here for graphs and data of how Vale of White Horse has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Baulking itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Baulking, in Vale of White Horse and Berkshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/2099
Date accessed: 27th April 2024
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