OS Grid Reference: 52°35'N 1°36'W
Name Origin: Originally Baddesley, Old English Bædesleah Bæddi's woodlands or clearing. The manor came to Thomas de Ednesouere (from Edensor Derbyshire) in 1259.
LANDS OF THORKELL OF WARWICK
In COLESHILL Hundred
William holds BEDESLEI. 2 hides, Land for 2 ploughs. 3 villagers, 5 smallholders and 2 slaves with 1 plough. Woodland 1½ leagues long and ½ league wide. The value was and is 10s.
This William misappropriated a fifth part of this land in King William's despite; one Brictric, who held it before 1066. lives there. Arkell and Coelred, Thorkell's men, held the rest of the land.
A Topographical Dictionary of England, Samuel Lewis, 1831:
BADDESLEY-ENSOR, a parochial chapelry in the Tamworth division of the hundred of HEMLINGFORD, county of WARWICK, 3½ miles (W.N.W.) from Atherstone, containing 535 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Coventry, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, endowed with £1200 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the parishioners of Polesworth. The chapel is dedicated to St. Michael. There are some coal mines in the neighbourhood. George Abbott, in 1647, bequeathed £4. 10. per annum to the free school.
The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, ed J.H.F.Brabner, 1895:
Baddesley Ensor, a village and a parish in Warwickshire, 3 miles WNW of Atherstone, and has a post office under Atherstone, the telegraph office. Acreage, 1155; population, 977. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £140 with residence. Patrons, the inhabitants. The church is modern, the old church having been pulled down in 1848. There are chapels for Congregationalists and Wesleyans.
Associated Family: Blower
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