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Badby is a village in the Daventry district of the county of Northamptonshire in England. Badby is a rural parish of some 2,400 acres (10 km²) in the west of Northamptonshire, south of Daventry, on the Daventry to Banbury main road. It is bisected west to east, at about 395 feet above sea level, by the upper reaches of the River Nene. The village is mainly to the south of the river, where the land rises to Badby Down at 610 feet. Its population has fluctuated between 450 and 625 from 1801 to 1971, with a low point of 410 in 1901, then to a high of 720 in 1991 and back to 645 in 2001 as average occupancy fell. Badby is found spelt in various ways since Saxon times, through the Norman period, until printing stabilised it in the present form. Badby, Badbye, Baddebi, Baddeby, Badebi and Badeby are all found. Baddanbyrg or Baddan Byrig were used in the 944 AD charter, but these more likely refer specifically to Arbury Hill in the south west of the parish, which at 734 ft. is the highest land in the county. Research Tips
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