Editing Badby (section)

==Name==
The village's name means 'Badda's fortification'. the second element was replaced with early Old Norse 'by', meaning 'farm/settlement'.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Northamptonshire/Badby|title = Key to English Place-names}}</ref>

Badby is spelt in various ways since [[Saxon]] times, through the [[Norman dynasty|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,<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/507570 | jstor=507570 | title=The Ēadmund-Ælfric Charter, 944 A. D. | last1=Keays-Young | first1=Julia | journal=The Review of English Studies | date=1930 | volume=6 | issue=23 | pages=271–283 | doi=10.1093/res/os-VI.23.271 | url-access=subscription }}</ref> but these more likely refer specifically to Arbury Hill (see below).