Badby
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Badby is a village and a rural parish of about in West Northamptonshire, England.
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Place details
- Locality
- Badby
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 632
- Timezone
- Europe/London
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Key facts
- UK place.civil_parish
- Badby
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Badby
- UK place.population
- 632
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011)
- UK place.unitary_england
- West Northamptonshire
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Northamptonshire
- UK place.region
- East Midlands
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Daventry
- UK place.post_town
- DAVENTRY
- UK place.postcode_district
- NN11
- UK place.postcode_area
- NN
- UK place.static_image_name
- Badby-Church Hill - geograph.org.uk - 933599.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Church Hill (bottom), Bunkers Hill (top), Badby
- UK place.dial_code
- 01327
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SP559590
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
22 sectionsContents
- Location
- Demographics
- Name
- History
- Saxon
- Norman
- Ecclesiastical
- Later times
- The Root(e) family
- Notable buildings
- St Mary's Church
- Badby House
- Lantern House
- Other houses
- Schools
- Morris dancing
- Rural bus challenge
- Badby Wood
- Footpaths
- Arbury Hill and earthworks
- References
- External links
Badby is a village and a rural parish of about in West Northamptonshire, England.
==Location== Badby is about 2 miles (3 km) south of Daventry, on the A361 Daventry to Banbury road, which still follows the route of the Lutterworth-Daventry-Banbury turnpike as approved in 1765. The parish is bisected west to east, at about above sea level, by the upper reaches of the River Nene. The village is mainly south of the river, where the land rises to Badby Down at .
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Badby” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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