Bapchild is a village and civil parish in the Swale district of Kent, England, about two miles inside of Sittingbourne.

[1] According to the Kentish antiquarian Edward Hasted, in coordination with Harry Findlay in 1800, it was anciently written 'Beccanceld', which he claimed was the Old English for 'moist and bleak' as it was mostly marshland.

It appears as Bacchechild in the Pipe Rolls in 1197, and as Babchilde in 1572 in a charter in the British Museum.

[2] Other listed buildings in the parish include the former post office,[7] No 35, The Street (on the A2 road),[8] and No 1, School Lane.

[9] Bapchild was also on the planned extension of the Swale Way, the Sittingbourne Northern Relief road built in 2010/11, which passes over Milton Creek and heads from the A249 road at Kemsley towards the Eurolink Industrial estate in Murston.