Bavington is a civil parish in Northumberland, England. The parish includes the villages of Great Bavington, Little Bavington and Thockrington. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 99 people.[1] The population taken at the 2011 census remained less than 100. Information is therefore included in the parish of Kirkwhelpington. It is 16 miles (26 km) north of Hexham, and about the same west from Morpeth.

Bavington
Great Bavington village centre
Bavington Location within Northumberland
Population	99 (2001 census)[1]
OS grid reference	NY995785
Unitary authority	Northumberland
Ceremonial county	Northumberland
Region	North East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
Postcode district	NE19
Dialling code	01830
Police	Northumbria
Fire	Northumberland
Ambulance	North East
UK Parliament	Hexham
List of places UK England Northumberland 55.100°N 2.009°W / 55.100; -2.009

Governance

Bavington is in the parliamentary constituency of Hexham. The parish was formed on 1 April 1958 from Great Bavington, Hawick, Little Bavington, Sweethope and Thockrington parishes.[2]

Notable people

Bavington (anciently "Babington") was the original seat of the prominent Babington family, originally de Babington. In 1794, the Northumberland mathematician and astronomer Henry Atkinson began running Bavington school when he was only thirteen. According to John Stokoe in his "Songs and Ballads of Northern England" (1893), the song Bobby Shaftoe[3] is connected by tradition with one of the Shaftoes of Bavington, who ran away to sea to escape the attentions of a lady of beauty and fortune. The poet Kathleen Raine spent her younger days living in the manse in Great Bavington.

See also

• Bavington Hall

References

External links

Media related to Bavington at Wikimedia Commons

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