Baulking or Balking is a village and civil parish about 3+1⁄2 miles (5.6 km) southeast of Faringdon in the Vale of White Horse district of Oxfordshire.

The parish is bounded to the north and north-west by the River Ock, to the south by its tributary Stutfield Brook and to the east by field boundaries.

The first part of the name may come from bæþ meaning "bath" and lācing may come from the same Old English word as Lockinge.

[2] The chancel has an Early English Gothic corner piscina[3] and lancet windows.

The Perpendicular Gothic window in the north wall of the nave was added late in the 15th century.

The Great Western Main Line was built through the southern part of the parish and opened in 1840.

Eight of the latter main cohort of the population were machine or plant operators or skilled agricultural workers.