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Bavington Hall. Bavington Hall is a 17th-century privately owned country house at Little Bavington in Northumberland.It is a Grade II* listed building. [1]A tower house (Little Bavington Tower) was recorded on the site in 1415, but this was replaced in the late 17th century by the Shafto family.
Bavington (anciently "Babington") was the original seat of the prominent Babington family, 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.
Sir Cuthbert was divorced by his wife, Mary, in 1797, 'by reason of cruelty and adultery.' [1] Robert Ingram Shafto held Bavington in 1835 but the male line became extinct and the estate passed to cousins in a junior branch of the family of Beamish Hall, Co Durham. When Slingsby Duncombe Shafto sold Beamish in 1949 that branch of the family ...
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Babington is a confluence of three words - Ba (likely a Saxon, or earlier Celtic name), ing (of Saxon origin) and ton (a settlement). So it means a settlement of the people or followers of Ba or Babba.
Thockrington is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Bavington, in Northumberland, England. The village lies about 10 miles (16 km) north of Hexham . In 1951 the parish had a population of 18.
It became home to a branch of the Shafto family of Bavington Hall until the 1770s, when it was sold by Robert Shafto (the son of Bobby Shafto, immortalised in the song of the same name). In 1831, the present building (originally known as Benwell Towers ) designed by the Tyneside architect John Dobson replaced the old house [ 1 ] and has since ...
This is a list of the high sheriffs of the English county of Northumberland.The high sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown. Formerly the High Sheriff was the principal law enforcement officer in the county but over the centuries most of the responsibilities associated with the post have been transferred elsewhere or are now defunct, so that its functions are now largely ceremonial.