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Place-Name Form: Balkes

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Modern Name
TypeRunning water
Grid ReferenceSK 20927 20868
ParishTatenhill
CountyStaffordshire
SourceSC6/988/19
Source Full Title[Tutbury Honor]: [Stafford] Tutbury, &c. (as in SC 6/988/14): [Stafford] Description of Officer: Divers Ministers
Source LocationTNA
Source Catalogue ReferenceSC/988/19
Source URL
Date 1408-1410 (10 to 11 Hen IV)
Notes Palisades apud Balkes recorded under Byrkeley in Tutbury Honor accounts. Balkes brook is referred to in the 1609 bounds of Barton under Needwood manor, near Gallows Bridge south of Branston towards Tatenhill (D3155/WH881, Derbyshire County Record Office, Matlock).

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