Badsworth

Other current and historical names

Badesuuorde
Badesuurde

Built-Up Area: Badsworth
Parish/Community: Badsworth
Unitary Authority: Wakefield
Region: Yorkshire and The Humber

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 53°37'46"N 1°18'10"W
Eastings/Northings: 446193, 414998
OS Grid: SE461149
Mapcode Local: GBR MVBG.QN
Mapcode Global: WHDCL.Y1QD

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Badsworth within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Badsworth in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Badsworth, par., township, and seat, E. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, 5 miles S. of Pontefract -- par., 3970 ac., pop. 742; township, 1546 ac., pop. 226; P.O.

Badsworth in the Domesday Book

A village in Osgodcross hundred, in the county of Yorkshire.

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Brothers, two
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Ilbert of Lacy
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Ilbert of Lacy
- Taxable Value: 9 ⁵⁄₈ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £3 in 1066; £3 in 1086
- Households: 13 villagers; 11 smallholders; 1 priest
- Plough Teams: 1 ¹⁄₂ lord's ploughs; 5 men's ploughs (6 plough lands)
- Meadow: 1 ¹⁄₂ acres
- Woodland: 1 mixed measure
- Churches: 1

British Place Names

Badsworth, Wakefield

Badsworth is a village in Wakefield

Badsworth in historic gazetteers

Badsworth in the Domesday Book