Where does the last name Chalke come from?

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**Where does the last name Chalke come from? **

Germany (Europe),Chalke - Chalice

www.bikereader.com/contributors/Brick/chalke.html : I called it The Chalke Way, adding an 'e' because the only place name along its length that referred to the terra firma under wheel was Chalke Valley, a colloquialism for the Ebble Valley it visits south west of Salisbury.
Until riding the route, I had no idea geology could have such an impact on the human activity and character of a landscape.

www.isleofavalon.co.uk/history/james.html
Wearyall Hill, the Glastonbury Thorn, and Chalice Well are all somewhat late additions to the Glastonbury mythology. Chalice Well, in particular, appears to be a modern sophistication of the name Chalke or Calke Well.

www.cousinconnect.com/p/a/0/s/Chalke/
CHALKE Genealogy Queries

www.londoniworld.com/wiki-Constantinople
unrest throughout the Empire. The emperor Leo III issued a decree in 726 against
images, and ordered the destruction of a statue of Christ over one of the doors of the Chalke, an act which was fiercely resisted by the citizens. Constantine V convoked a church council in 754 which condemned the worship of images, after which many treasures were broken, burned, or painted over. Following the death of his son Leo IV in 780, the empress Irene restored the veneration of images through the agency of the Second Council of Nicaea in 787.

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