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Baulking

The hamlet of Baulking was a chapelry of Uffington parish, lying six miles from Faringdon and fifteen miles from Abingdon. The River Ock forms the boundary with Shellingford. Approximately one quarter of the land was arable, the rest pasture. There was a weekly market (defunct by the late eighteenth century).

Further reading
Wordie, R. (ed.), ‘Enclosure In Berkshire, 1485-1885’ (Reading, 2000) pp.168-170.


Acreage: 1473
Population 1801: 173
  1831: 185
  1861: 181

 

OS Map Grid Ref(s): 13

 

Parliamentary Enclosure Maps & Awards

Baulking (See Uffington)

 

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