Balkwill Family History
Balkwill Name Meaning
perhaps from a lost or unidentified place in Devon named with Old English balca‘ ridge’ + Old English wiella ‘spring stream’ or else it may be irregular for one of the places in Devon called Blackwell or Blakewell (see Blackwell ) but none of these is close to where Balkwill is first recorded. variant of Bakewell from the place-name Bakewell (Derbys) which appears as Baukwell Bawkwell and the like throughout the Middle Ages.
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016