Badsworth
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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, increasing to 682 at the 2011 Census. The village is located south of Pontefract.
Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.static_image_name
- Badsworth - Saint Mary the Virgin Church.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Saint Mary the Virgin Church
- UK place.label_position
- top
- UK place.official_name
- Badsworth
- UK place.population
- 682
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Badsworth
- UK place.metropolitan_borough
- City of Wakefield
- UK place.metropolitan_county
- West Yorkshire
- UK place.region
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- UK place.post_town
- PONTEFRACT
- UK place.postcode_district
- WF9
- UK place.postcode_area
- WF
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SE4614
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Wakefield
- Population
- 682
- Image
- Badsworth - Saint Mary the Virgin Church.jpg
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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, increasing to 682 at the 2011 Census. The village is located 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Badsworth” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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