The story
- Old English · derived frombalca“ridge”
- English todayBalkwill
Perhaps a habitational surname from a lost settlement in Devon named with Old English balca (“ridge”) + wella (“well, stream, spring”). Alternatively, it could be a variant of Bakewell.
Words from the same roots
Old Englishbalca all →
balk
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.