Per old-time lore, Babingley is the spot where St. Felix of Burgundy, the Apostle to the East Angles, landed in that region in AD 615. We learn: "A legend claims that Felix was shipwrecked on the River Babingley -- leading from B., to the Wash -- but a colony of beavers [then a resident British wildlife species] saved him from drowning. So in gratitude, St. Felix consecrated the chief beaver as a bishop. The village sign records the legend, showing a beaver with a bishop's mitre, ministering to other beavers." Marvellously mad, but delightful. Association here, with another saintly luminary from those centuries: St. Cuthbert, who in his time as a hermit on the Farne Islands, interacted affectionately and to mutual benefit; with otters, and eider ducks. (So much for glum and rigorous Christians who maintain that "the brute creation" is of no consequence, and should be ignored -- only humans matter.)
Probably one of the nearest to the Farnes, churches dedicated to St. Cuthbert: is that of Blyth, Northumberland.