Population 99 (2001 census) Unitary authority Local time Tuesday 2:35 PM | OS grid reference NY995785 Sovereign state United Kingdom Dialling code 01830 Post town Newcastle upon Tyne | |
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Bavington is a village and civil parish in Northumberland, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of (2001)99. The population taken at the 2011 census remained less than 100. Information is therefore included in the parish of Kirkwhelpington.The village is 16 miles (26 km) north of Hexham, and about the same west from Morpeth.
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Map of Bavington, UK
Governance
Bavington is in the parliamentary constituency of Hexham.
Notable people
Bavington (anciently "Babington") was the original seat of the prominent Babington family, originally de Babington. 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 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.