Badsworth | |
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Saint Mary the Virgin Church | |
Location within West Yorkshire | |
Population | 682 (2011) |
OS grid reference | SE4614 |
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Metropolitan borough | |
Metropolitan county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | PONTEFRACT |
Postcode district | WF9 |
Police | West Yorkshire |
Fire | West Yorkshire |
Ambulance | Yorkshire |
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]