Bathkump is a village in the Rural District in the Western Area of Sierra Leone.

Bathkump has its own directly elected village council local government, headed by a Village Head, though it is part of the much larger Western Area Rural District Council.

[2] The village of Bathkump was founded by a muslim cleric named Sulaiman Jabbie in the late nineteenth century.

Due to cleric Sulaiman Jabbie's influence, Muslims soon came to be a majority in the village.

The current Village Head of Bathkump Hassan J. Kamara is the grandson of Sulaiman Jabbie.