Bavington is a
civil parish in
Northumberland, England. The parish includes the villages of
Great Bavington,
Little Bavington
Little is a synonym for small size and may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Little'' (album), 1990 debut album of Vic Chesnutt
* ''Little'' (film), 2019 American comedy film
*The Littles, a series of children's novels by American author John P ...
and
Thockrington
Thockrington is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Bavington, in Northumberland, England. The village lies about north of Hexham. In 1951 the parish had a population of 18.
Governance
Thockrington is in the parliamentary ...
. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 99 people.
[ The population taken at the 2011 census remained less than 100. Information is therefore included in the parish of ]Kirkwhelpington
Kirkwhelpington is a village and civil parish in the English county of Northumberland about northeast of Hexham. It is on the River Wansbeck alongside the A696 trunk road between Otterburn and Ponteland.
History
Kirkwhelpington has mediev ...
. It is north of Hexham
Hexham ( ) is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in Northumberland, England, on the south bank of the River Tyne, formed by the confluence of the North Tyne and the South Tyne at Warden, Northumberland, Warden nearby, and ...
, and about the same west from Morpeth.
Governance
Bavington is in the parliamentary constituency of Hexham
Hexham ( ) is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in Northumberland, England, on the south bank of the River Tyne, formed by the confluence of the North Tyne and the South Tyne at Warden, Northumberland, Warden nearby, and ...
. The parish was formed on 1 April 1958 from Great Bavington, Hawick, Little Bavington, Sweethope and Thockrington parishes.
Notable people
Bavington (anciently "Babington") was the original seat of the prominent Babington family
Babington is the name of an Anglo-IrishBurke's Landed Gentry of Ireland, 1958, 4th Edition by L. G. Pine, Burke's Peerage: 'Babington of Creevagh', pg 42' and English gentry family. The Anglo-Irish branch of the family is still extant today.
Ba ...
, 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.[The Manor of Dethick," in "The Old Halls, Manors and Families of Derbyshire, 2, p. 283]
Google Books
In 1794, the Northumberland mathematician and astronomer Henry Atkinson began running Bavington school when he was only thirteen.
According to John Stokoe
John Stokoe was a 19th-century Tyneside (and maybe South Shields) author and historian. He co-operated with the author John Collingwood Bruce in compiling the hugely important “ Northumbrian Minstrelsy” published in 1882.
Details
Stokoe ...
in his "Songs and Ballads of Northern England" (1893), the song Bobby Shaftoe[Songs of Northern England (1893)] 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
A manse () is a clergy house inhabited by, or formerly inhabited by, a minister, usually used in the context of Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist and other Christian traditions.
Ultimately derived from the Latin ''mansus'', "dwelling", from '' ...
in Great Bavington.
See also
*Bavington Hall
Bavington Hall is a 17th-century privately owned country house at Little Bavington in Northumberland. It is a Grade II* listed building.
A tower house (Little Bavington Tower) was recorded on the site in 1415, but this was replaced in the late 1 ...
References
External links
Civil parishes in Northumberland
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