# Bagendon

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{{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](/source/Church_of_St_Margaret%2C_Bagendon)
| coordinates = {{coord|51.75|-01.98|display=inline,title}}
| official_name = Bagendon
| population = 239
| shire_district = 
| shire_county = [Gloucestershire](/source/Gloucestershire)
| metropolitan_borough = 
| metropolitan_county = 
| region = South West England
| constituency_westminster = [North Cotswolds](/source/North_Cotswolds_(UK_Parliament_constituency))<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](/source/Cirencester)
| postcode_district = GL7
| postcode_area = GL
| dial_code = 
| os_grid_reference = SP0106
}}
'''Bagendon''' is a village and [civil parish](/source/civil_parish) in the [Cotswold district](/source/Cotswold_(district)) of [Gloucestershire](/source/Gloucestershire), England, about {{Convert | 4 | mi | 0 | spell = in}} north of [Cirencester](/source/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](/source/United_Kingdom_Census_2011).<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](/source/Church_of_England) parish church, [St Margaret's](/source/Church_of_St_Margaret%2C_Bagendon), a Grade I [listed building](/source/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](/source/Margaret_the_Virgin) or to [St Margaret of Scotland](/source/Saint_Margaret_of_Scotland), is “an attractive and interesting little church, often subjected to flooding". The church building is partly [Norman](/source/Norman_architecture), but the [chancel](/source/chancel), south door and porch, the windows in the [nave](/source/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](/source/Hilda_Gregg) was born here in 1868.<ref name="ODNB">{{Cite ODNB|id=38927|title=Gregg, Hilda Caroline [pseud. Sydney C. Grier]}}</ref>

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

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Category:Villages in Gloucestershire
Category:Cotswold District

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