Bapchild

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Bapchild
Bapchild shown within Kent
District	Swale
Shire county	Kent
Region	South East
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Police	Kent
Fire	Kent
Ambulance	South East Coast
European Parliament	South East England
List of places: UK • England • Kent

Coordinates: 51°18′00″N 0°46′00″E / 51.316666, 0.766667

Bapchild, originally Baccanceld, is a village and civil parish in the Swale district of Kent, England, about two miles east of Sittingbourne. It lies on the A2, and according to the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 1,068.

[edit] Synod of Baccanceld

Main article: Synod of Baccanceld

In 694 it was the site of the Synod of Baccanceld. This meeting was rather a witenagemot, or an Old English Parliament or Royal Council (in Christian kingdoms often including clerics), than an ecclesiastical synod, as it was presided over by Wihtred, King of Kent. There were present at its deliberations Brihtwald, Archbishop of Canterbury, Tobias, Bishop of Rochester, besides abbots, abbesses, priests, deacons and lay lords.^[1]

[edit] References

^ Synod of Baccanceld – Catholic Encyclopedia article

This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.

v • d • e Towns and villages in the Swale district of Kent, England

Bapchild • Badlesmere • Bay View • Bobbing • Borden • Boughton Street • Boughton under Blean • Bredgar • Brogdale • Buckland • Chestnut Street • Conyer • Dargate • Davington • Denstroude • Doddington • Dunkirk • Eastchurch • Eastling • Elmley • Faversham • Faversham Without • Goodnestone • Graveney • Halfway Houses • Hartlip • Harty • Heart's Delight, Swale • Hernhill • Highsted • Iwade • Kemsley • Keycol • Kingsdown • Leaveland • Leysdown-on-Sea • Lower Halstow • Luddenham • Lynsted • Milstead • Milton Regis • Minster • Minster-on-Sea • Mockbeggar • Murston • Newington • Newnham • Norton • Oad Street • Oare • Ospringe • Oversland • Painters Forstal • Queenborough • Rodmersham Green • Rushenden • Selling • Sheldwich • Sheerness • Sittingbourne • Stalisfield Green • Teynham • Throwley • Tonge • Tunstall • Upchurch • Uplees • Warden • Waterham • Whitehill

List of places in Kent