Balking, or Baulking, anciently Betkelking a village and a parish in Berks. The Uffington Junction station on the G.W.R. is in this parish, from which there is a branch to Faringdon, which is 4 miles SSE. It was formerly a market-town, and its post town is Faringdon; money order and telegraph office, Uffington. Acreage, 1580; population of the civil parish, 183; of the ecclesiastical, 335. The living is a vicarage united to Woolstone, in the diocese of Oxford; gross value, £56 with residence. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Early English style.
