Place:Bavington, Northumberland, England

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NameBavington
TypeCivil parish
Coordinates55.1°N 2.009°W
Located inNorthumberland, England
See alsoGreat Bavington, Northumberland, Englandcivil parish into which it was absorbed in 1955
Bellingham Rural, Northumberland, Englandrural district of which it was part 1955-1974
Tynedale District, Northumberland, Englanddistrict municipality covering the area 1974-2009
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Bavington is a village and civil parish in Northumberland, England. According to the 2001 UK census it had a population of 99. The population taken at the 2011 UK census remained less than 100. The village is 16 miles (26 km) north of Hexham, and about the same west from Morpeth.

Bavington was formed in 1955 from a number of small civil parishes:

From 1955 until 1974 the parish was part of Bellingham Rural District. In 1974 rural districts were abolished and Bavington became part of the Tynedale District until 2009 when Northumberland became a unitary authority.

Notable people

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In 1794, the Northumberland mathematician and astronomer Henry Atkinson (1781-1829) 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 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 (1908-2003) spent her younger days living in the manse in Great Bavington.

Research Tips

  • Northumberland Archives previously known as Northumberland Collections Service and Northumberland County Record Office. Now based within Woodhorn Museum in Ashington and providing free access to numerous records for local and family historians alike.
Full postal address: Museum and Northumberland Archives, Queen Elizabeth II Country Park, Ashington, Northumberland, NE63 9YF; Phone: 01670 624455
There is a branch office in Berwick upon Tweed.
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