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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. [edit] Notable people
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. [edit] Research Tips
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