Bagendon
| Bagendon | |
|---|---|
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  Bagendon Location within Gloucestershire | |
| Population | 239 |
| OS grid reference | SP0106 |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Cirencester |
| Postcode district | GL7 |
| Police | Gloucestershire |
| Fire | Gloucestershire |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| UK Parliament | |
Bagendon is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England, about four miles (6 km) north of Cirencester.[1][2] According to the 2001 census it had a population of 265, decreasing to 239 at the 2011 census.[3] The hamlet of Perrott's Brook is adjacent to Bagendon's southeast.
Etymology
[edit]Also historically called Bagginton and Badgington until the late 19th-century, the name derives from the early medieval description "valley of Baecga's folk".[4]
St Margaret's Church
[edit]The Church of England parish church, St Margaret's, a Grade I listed building[5] dedicated probably either to St Margaret of Antioch or to St Margaret of Scotland, is “an attractive and interesting little church, often subjected to flooding". The church building is partly Norman, but the chancel, south door and porch, the windows in the nave, and the diagonal buttresses of the tower date to between about 1460 and 1470.[6]
People
[edit]The novelist Hilda Gregg was born here in 1868.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 163 Cheltenham & Cirencester (Stow-on-the-Wold) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2012. ISBN 9780319229125.
- ^ "Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer" (csv (download)). www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Ordnance Survey. 1 January 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
- ^ "Parish population 2011". Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
- ^ Moore, Tom (2020). "Introduction: research at Bagendon" (PDF). A Biography of Power: Research and Excavations at the Iron Age 'oppidum' of Bagendon, Gloucestershire (1979-2017). Archaeopress. Retrieved 7 October 2024.
- ^ British Listed Buildings web-site, accessed on 22 March 2018
- ^ David Verey, Cotswold Churches (B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1976), at pages 71 to 72
- ^ "Gregg, Hilda Caroline [pseud. Sydney C. Grier]". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/38927. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
External links
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