Badsworth

Human settlement in England

Badsworth

Metropolitan borough

City of Wakefield

West Yorkshire

Region

Yorkshire and the Humber

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List of places: UK; England; Yorkshire

53°37′N 1°18′W / 53.62°N 01.30°W / 53.62; -01.30

Badsworth is a village and civil parish in the City of Wakefield metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 583,^[1] increasing to 682 at the 2011 Census.^[2] The village is located 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Pontefract.

The name "Badsworth" has its roots in Old English and means "Enclosure of a man called Bæddi". The first element is the person's name Bæddi; the second is the word worth, meaning an enclosure, or enclosed farmstead or settlement. The village was recorded as Badesuuorde in the Domesday Book of 1086.^[3]

References

^ Office for National Statistics : Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : Wakefield Archived 2011-06-13 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2009-09-10
^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
^ 'Oxford Dictionary of British Place-Names', A.D. Mills, Oxford University Press.