Bavington

{{Short description|Village and civil parish in Northumberland, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} {{Use British English|date=August 2019}} {{Infobox UK place |official_name= Bavington |country = England |region = North East England |unitary_england= Northumberland |lieutenancy_england= Northumberland |constituency_westminster= Hexham | population = 99 | population_ref = (2001 census)<ref name=nhs>{{Cite web |url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=8&containerAreaId=790480 |title=Office for National Statistics: Neighbourhood Statistics |access-date=30 October 2009 |archive-date=28 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120528161552/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=8&containerAreaId=790480 |url-status=dead }}</ref> |post_town = NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE |postcode_area = NE |postcode_district = NE19 |dial_code = 01830 |os_grid_reference = NY995785 |coordinates = {{coord|55.100|-2.009|display=inline,title}} |static_image_name = Great Bavington village centre - geograph.org.uk - 1176848.jpg |static_image_caption=Great Bavington village centre }} '''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.<ref name=nhs/> The population taken at the 2011 census remained less than 100. Information is therefore included in the parish of Kirkwhelpington. It is {{convert|16|mi|0}} north of Hexham, and about the same west from Morpeth.

== 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10300150|title=Relationships and changes Bavington CP through time|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=19 January 2022}}</ref>

== Notable people == Bavington (anciently "Babington") was the original seat of the prominent Babington family, originally ''de Babington''. Sir John de Babington, Lord of Babington Parva (now Bavington), in the county of Northumberland was alive in 1178 and 1220 and the family remained there for at least five generations before migrating south to Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Nottingham, Cambridge and Devon.<ref name="Manor">The Manor of Dethick," in "The Old Halls, Manors and Families of Derbyshire, 2, p. 283. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ROIMAAAAYAAJ&dq=babington%20of%20derbyshire&pg=PA283 Google Books].</ref>

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<ref>Songs of Northern England (1893)</ref> 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

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==External links== {{Commons category-inline|Bavington}}

Category:Civil parishes in Northumberland