Badsworth is a village and civil parish in the City of Wakefield metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England.
[2] The village is located 6 miles (9.7 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.
This West Yorkshire location article is a stub.