English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Shire Balk

Other OS name in the Parish of Guilden Morden

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) . Cf. “pasture called the Sheare ” 1665EA xi , Shire way 1800EnclA . It runs along the Hertfordshire boundary , cf. PN Herts250 , s. v. balke .