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.
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- UK place.country
- England
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- 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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- Population
- 682
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- 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.
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