12 Facts About Badby

Badby is a village and a rural parish of about 2,020 acres in West Northamptonshire, England.

Badby is about 2 miles south of Daventry, on the A361 Daventry to Banbury road, which still follows the route of the Lutterworth-Daventry-Banbury turnpike as approved in 1765.

Badby is spelt in various ways since Saxon times, through the Norman period, until printing stabilised it in the present form.

Badby was a well known womaniser who was exiled to the small and distant priory of Penwortham in 1213.

Badby's son John was born in Milton M r probably in 1570.

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Badby House was built in 1826 by Charles William Watkins, whose arms are listed in Burke's General Armory as: Azure, a fess vair between three leopard's faces jessant-de-lys or.

From 1964 Badby House had extensions carried out for use by passionist contemplative nuns, when it became known as Our Lady of Passion Monastery.

Badby began to teach the girls to read and write and then decided to take a cottage for the purpose.

Badby had a tradition of Morris dancing, and village men still danced till about the 1870s.

The dances of Badby might have been lost too, but about 1911 the folk song and dance collector Cecil Sharp visited the Daventry area with George Butterworth, the composer, who was a fellow collector and a dancer himself.

Badby is fortunate to have such a valuable history of local folklore and its own village folk music tunes.

Badby Wood is the largest of a localised group of ancient semi-natural woodlands lying mainly on acidic soils derived from Jurassic Upper Lias Clays and Northampton Sands.