An introduction to Bavington

The parish’s name derives from the Old English for the “estate of Babba” and was known up to the 13th Century as “Babington”. Bavington is an ideal rural location yet only 30 minutes by car from central Newcastle. The parish contains 12 square miles of the most sparsely populate areas in Tynedale.

The parish has many fine stone dwellings and isolated farms and many of these farm buildings have been converted into private houses. The current major industries are farming, both arable and livestock and quarrying for the local sandstone and the extremely hard whinstone.

The area is steeped in history with Iron Age earthworks and quarry pits and signs of the later Roman occupation.

There are no major facilities in the parish, shops, banks and post offices are available in Ponteland 14 miles south east or in Hexham some 15 miles south of great Bavington.

The area is extremely quiet and rural yet Newcastle is only some 20 miles to the south east.

Selected Links

• The Hexham Courant [http://www.hexham-courant.co.uk/]
• Northumberland County Council [http://www.northumberland.gov.uk]
• Northumberland Tourist Board [http://www.ntb.org.uk]

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