Badsworth

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}

{{Use British English|date=January 2025}}

{{Infobox UK place

| country = England

| static_image_name = Badsworth - Saint Mary the Virgin Church.jpg

| static_image_caption = Saint Mary the Virgin Church

| coordinates = {{coord|53.62|-01.30|display=inline,title}}

| label_position = top

| official_name = Badsworth

| population = 682

| population_ref = (2011)

| civil_parish = Badsworth

| metropolitan_borough = City of Wakefield

| metropolitan_county = West Yorkshire

| region = Yorkshire and the Humber

| constituency_westminster =

| post_town = PONTEFRACT

| postcode_district = WF9

| postcode_area = WF

| dial_code =

| os_grid_reference = SE4614

}}

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,[http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=8&containerAreaId=790273 Office for National Statistics : Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : Wakefield] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613050045/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=8&containerAreaId=790273 |date=2011-06-13 }} Retrieved 2009-09-10 increasing to 682 at the 2011 Census.{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11120301&c=Badsworth&d=16&e=62&g=6375260&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1456843069328&enc=1|title=Civil Parish population 2011|accessdate=1 March 2016|publisher=Office for National Statistics|work=Neighbourhood Statistics}} The village is located {{convert|6|mi|km}} 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.'Oxford Dictionary of British Place-Names', A.D. Mills, Oxford University Press.