Baulking, Berkshire Family History Guide

Baulking with Woolstone is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Berkshire, created in 1848 from Baulking chapelry and Woolstone chapelry in Uffington Ancient Parish.

Alternative names: Balking, Bethelking, Baulking, Balking with Woolstone

Other places in the parish include: Woolstone.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin: 1849

Nonconformists include: Particular Baptist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

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 formerly 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.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851

Baulking, anciently Bethelking, a hamlet and chapelry, formerly a market-town, in the parish of Uffington, hund. of Shrivenham, county of Berks; 3½ miles south-east of Farringdon, in the vicinity of the Great Western railway, and Berks and Wilts canal. Here is a chapel, the curacy of which is annexed to the vicarage of Uppingham. The great and small tithes of this township, the property of the lay-impropriator and vicar, commuted in 1777. Pop., in 1801, 173; in 1831, 185. Houses 19. Acreage with the parish. A.P. £2,798. Poor rates, in 1837, £151.

Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.

Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850

Baulking, 5 m. fr. Wantage. P. 193.

Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.

Parish Records

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England, Berkshire, Balking – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Balking, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Berkshire, Balking – Church history ( 1 )
Guide to the parish churches of Uffington, Baulking and Woolstone
Author: Little, John E.

England, Berkshire, Balking – Church records ( 2 )
Baulking, Berkshire, parish registers : [parish register transcripts], 1850-1989
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Balking; Church, Rosemary; Faringdon and District Historical and Archaeological Society; Oxfordshire Family History Society

Oxfordshire parish register transcripts : Faringdon Registration District
Author: Oxfordshire Family History Society

England, Berkshire, Balking – Schools ( 1 )
Admission registers, 1912-1931
Author: Baulking Council School (Baulking, Berkshire)

England, Berkshire, Balking – Taxation ( 1 )
The hearth tax for the parishes of Uffington, Baulking, Woolstone, Kingston-Lisle and Fawler, A.D. 1663
Author: Little, John E.

Administration

  • County: Berkshire
  • Civil Registration District: Faringdon
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Berkshire
  • Diocese: Pre-1836 – Salisbury, Post-1835 – Oxford
  • Rural Deanery: Abingdon
  • Poor Law Union: Faringdon
  • Hundred: Shrivenham
  • Province: Canterbury