Badsworth, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Badsworth, a pretty village, a township, and a parish in the W.R. Yorkshire. The township lies 5 miles S of Pontefract, and 2 from Hemsworth station on the G.N.R., and has a post office under Pontefract; telegraph office, Upton station, on the Hull and Barnsley railway. Acreage, 1546; population, 206. The parish includes also the townships of Upton and Thorpe-Audlin. Acreage, 8970; population, 702. Badsworth Hall is the seat of the Heywood-Jones family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of York; net value, £459 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Derby. The oldest part of the church is Transition and the later part Perpendicular. In the parish are three Methodist chapels.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Yorkshire | |
| Ecclesiastical parish | Badsworth St. Mary | |
| Riding | West | |
| Wapentake | Osgoldcross |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Badsworth from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Badsworth (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for the West Riding of Yorkshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Badsworth are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following West Riding newspapers online: