Bagendon

{{Short description|Village in Gloucestershire, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2015}} {{Use British English|date=February 2015}} {{Infobox UK place | country = England | static_image_name = Bagendon Church - geograph.org.uk - 1551148.jpg | static_image_caption = Church of St Margaret | coordinates = {{coord|51.75|-01.98|display=inline,title}} | official_name = Bagendon | population = 239 | shire_district = | shire_county = Gloucestershire | metropolitan_borough = | metropolitan_county = | region = South West England | constituency_westminster = North Cotswolds<ref>{{cite web|title=Location of North Cotswolds |url=https://members.parliament.uk/constituency/4201/location |website=parliament.uk|access-date=5 January 2024}}</ref> | post_town = Cirencester | postcode_district = GL7 | postcode_area = GL | dial_code = | os_grid_reference = SP0106 }} '''Bagendon''' is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England, about {{Convert | 4 | mi | 0 | spell = in}} north of Cirencester.<ref name=OS163>{{cite map|title=Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 163 ''Cheltenham & Cirencester (Stow-on-the-Wold)''|ISBN= 9780319229125 |publisher=Ordnance Survey|date=2012}}</ref><ref name=OSGaz50>{{cite web|url=https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendatadownload/products.html|title=Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer|format=csv (download)|date= 1 January 2016|publisher=Ordnance Survey|website=www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk|accessdate=30 January 2016}}</ref> According to the 2001 census it had a population of 265, decreasing to 239 at the 2011 census.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11120304&c=GL7+7DU&d=16&e=62&g=6426948&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1427107813738&enc=1 |title=Parish population 2011|accessdate= 23 March 2015 |url-status = dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402104408/https://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11120304&c=GL7+7DU&d=16&e=62&g=6426948&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1427107813738&enc=1 |archivedate=2 April 2015 |df=dmy }}</ref> The hamlet of '''Perrott's Brook''' is adjacent to Bagendon's southeast.

==Etymology== Also historically called Bagginton and Badgington until the late 19th-century, the name derives from the early medieval description "valley of Baecga's folk".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/jj.15135961.7.pdf|title=Introduction: research at Bagendon|first=Tom|last=Moore|work=A Biography of Power: Research and Excavations at the Iron Age 'oppidum' of Bagendon, Gloucestershire (1979-2017)|publisher=Archaeopress|date=2020|accessdate=7 October 2024}}</ref>

==St Margaret's Church== The Church of England parish church, St Margaret's, a Grade I listed building<ref>British Listed Buildings [https://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101090271-church-of-st-margaret-bagendon#.WrNu02dLFaQ ''web-site''], accessed on 22 March 2018</ref> dedicated probably either to St Margaret of Antioch or to St Margaret of Scotland, is “an attractive and interesting little church, often subjected to flooding". The church building is partly Norman, but the chancel, south door and porch, the windows in the nave, and the diagonal buttresses of the tower date to between about 1460 and 1470.<ref>David Verey, ''Cotswold Churches'' (B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1976), at pages 71 to 72</ref>

==People== The novelist Hilda Gregg was born here in 1868.<ref name="ODNB">{{Cite ODNB|id=38927|title=Gregg, Hilda Caroline [pseud. Sydney C. Grier]}}</ref>

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==External links== * {{OpenDomesday|SP0106|bagendon|Bagendon}} * [http://bagendonpc.wordpress.com Bagendon Parish Council]

Category:Villages in Gloucestershire Category:Cotswold District