Badby, Northamptonshire

Description
Badby, a village and a parish in Northamptonshire. The village stands on the ascent of a hill called Badby Down, near the source of the river Nen, 2 1/2 miles SSW of Daventry, and 4 1/2 W of Weedon station on the L. and N.W.R. It has a post office under Daventry, the money order and telegraph office. The parish comprises 1765 acres; population of the civil parish, 519 ; of the ecclesiastical district of Badby with Newnham, 910. An ancient camp, 10 acres in area, with wide deep fosse and very steep ramparts, occurs on Arbury Hill, and is supposed to be Roman. The living is a vicarage, united with the parish of Newnham, in the diocese of Peterborough; joint gross yearly value, £236 with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Peterborough. The church is a fine old structure of stone in the Perpendicular style.