Bagendon

Bagendon is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England, about four miles (6 km) north of Cirencester.^[2][3] According to the 2001 census it had a population of 265, decreasing to 239 at the 2011 census.^[4] The hamlet of Perrott's Brook is adjacent to Bagendon's southeast.

Bagendon
Church of St Margaret
Bagendon Location within Gloucestershire
Population	239
OS grid reference	SP0106
Shire county	Gloucestershire
Region	South West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Cirencester
Postcode district	GL7
Police	Gloucestershire
Fire	Gloucestershire
Ambulance	South Western
UK Parliament	North Cotswolds[1]
List of places UK England Gloucestershire 51.75°N 01.98°W / 51.75; -01.98

Etymology

Also historically called Bagginton and Badgington until the late 19th-century, the name derives from the early medieval description "valley of Baecga's folk".^[5]

St Margaret's Church

The Church of England parish church, St Margaret's, a Grade I listed building^[6] 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.^[7]

People

The novelist Hilda Gregg was born here in 1868.^[8]