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Bawtry
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  Map sources for Bawtry at grid reference SK6593
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Bawtry is a small market town which lies at the point where the Great North Road crosses the River Idle. The name Bawtry comes from the Anglo-Saxon name meaning 'Balda's tree'. It is located in the metropolitan borough of Doncaster (part of South Yorkshire, England), on the border with Nottinghamshire, and is situated between Bircotes and Misson, on the conjunction of the A614, A631 and A638 roads. Its geographical location is 53° 25' 40" North, 1° 1' West, at an elevation of around 20 metres above sea level.
It is just south of Robin Hood Airport formerly RAF Finningley and was home to the RAF's No.1 Group Bomber Command Headquarters at Bawtry Hall (see RAF Bawtry).
The county boundry with Nottinghamshire runs just to the south of the town and for this reason the southern most house on the Great North Road is named 'Number One Yorkshire'.
Bawtry was originally a small Roman settlement.
In 616 AD, the Anglo-Saxon King Aethelfrith finally met his end in battle against Raedwald King of East Anglia at Bawtry on the River Idle. The site lies close to the present borders of Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire. In Aethelfrith's time this area lay on the southern reaches of Northumbria, a dangerous marshy region close to the border with Lindsey and easily accessible from the East Anglian kingdom.
During the 12th Century Bawtry was regional centre for commerce and River Port.
Bawtry has a school called Bawtry Mayflower named after the Mayflower ship that was led by William Bradford who was leader of the Pilgrims first settling in Plymouth Colony in the Americas.
William Bradford lived at Scrooby close by to Bawtry.
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