Badgeworth

For similarly named village in Somerset, see Badgworth.

Badgeworth
The area by the church
Badgeworth Location within Gloucestershire
Population	1,286
District	Tewkesbury
Shire county	Gloucestershire
Region	South West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Gloucester
Postcode district	GL3
Post town	Cheltenham
Postcode district	GL51
Dialling code	01452
Police	Gloucestershire
Fire	Gloucestershire
Ambulance	South Western
UK Parliament	Tewkesbury North Cotswolds
List of places UK England Gloucestershire 51°52′24″N 2°08′25″W / 51.873204°N 2.140201°W / 51.873204; -2.140201

Badgeworth is a village and civil parish in the Tewkesbury district of Gloucestershire, England, between Gloucester and Cheltenham. According to the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 1,206, increasing to 1,286 at the 2011 census.^[1] Apart from the village of Badgeworth the parish also includes Bentham and Little Witcombe.

Despite its small size and being situated nearly a mile south of the line, in 1843 Badgeworth was provided with a station on the newly opened Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (later part of the Midland Railway and subsequently the LMS), but this was a very early casualty, closing as early as 1846.

History

The Bentham Works site of Gloster Aircraft Company was built north of the A417 in 1941.

Governance

An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward stretches from Boddington in the north to Badgeworth in the south. The total ward population at the 2011 census was 2,124.^[2]

• 
  Holy Trinity Church
• 
  House viewed from the Gloucestershire Way which crosses its driveway
• 
  Badgeworth Court, in the Dutch Colonial style (1829), former home of Colonel Selwyn Payne

References

1. "Parish population 2015". Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
2. "Ward population 2011". Retrieved 1 April 2015.

External links

• Badgeworth, Gloucestershire - extract from 1868 National Gazetteer, at genuki
• Badgeworth in the Domesday Book