Badsworth is a village and
civil parish in the
City of Wakefield
The City of Wakefield is a local government district with the status of a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. Wakefield, the largest settlement, is the administrative centre of the district. The population of the City of ...
metropolitan borough in
West Yorkshire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 583, increasing to 682 at the 2011 Census. The village is located south of
Pontefract.
The name "Badsworth" has its roots in
Old English
Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, Anglo ...
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.
['Oxford Dictionary of British Place-Names', A.D. Mills, Oxford University Press.]
See also
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Listed buildings in Badsworth
Badsworth is a civil parish in the metropolitan borough of the City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. The parish contains ten listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade&n ...
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Villages in West Yorkshire
Geography of the City of Wakefield
Civil parishes in West Yorkshire
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