BADBY, a parish in the hundred of FAWSLEY, county of NORTHAMPTON, 2 miles (S. S.W.) from Daventry, containing 547 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, with the perpetual curacy of Newnham annexed, in the archdeaconry of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough, rated in the king's books at £ 14, endowed with £ 200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. There are quarries of hard blue rag-stone in the neighbourhood. On a lofty eminence, called Arbury hill, is an intrenchment enclosing an area of about ten acres, supposed to have been a Roman camp.