Badsworth
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.