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Badger is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England, about six miles north-east of Bridgnorth. The parish had a population of 134 according to the 2001 census, falling to 126 at the 2011 census.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Civil Parish population 2011 )〕 Badger Parish is at grid map reference SJ 76834 99840. The boundaries of the parish contain the village of Badger, one side of Badger Dingle, and Badger Heath Farm. It is approximately 2.7 km at its widest point. The village and its surroundings, particularly the Dingle, are considered a visitor attraction. In their present form they owe much to deliberate planning and landscaping in the 18th century. ==Etymology== ''Badger'' has its origin in the Old English language of the Anglo-Saxons. It has no connection with the mammal, spelled similarly: as late as the 1870s, the alternative spelling ''Bagsore'' was current.〔(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870–72) at ''A Vision of Britain Through Time'' )〕 The late Margaret Gelling, a specialist in Midland toponyms, formerly based at the University of Birmingham separates it into two separate elements: : *The first element in the name, ''Bæcg'', is an Anglo-Saxon personal name – perhaps one of the Angles who came to settle in the evolving kingdom of Mercia, and shared with Beckbury. : *The second element, ''ofer'' signifies a hill spur.〔Gelling, Margaret (1984) ''Place-Names in the Landscape''. London: J. M. Dent ISBN 0-460-86086-0, 259.〕 In a detailed discussion of this latter term,〔Gelling (1984), p.173-179〕 Gelling admits that it is a conjectural reconstruction of a word that never occurs separately, but is a common part of place-names, with the main concentration being in Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Shropshire and Herefordshire. It has often been construed simply as a hill or ridge, but Gelling's detailed examination of sites suggests a more precise significance: that the place is on or close to a long, narrow ridge, perhaps jutting from a larger ridge. At Badger, "the settlement lies to the E. of an appropriate hill-spur.".〔Gelling (1984), p.176〕 There is indeed a spur, rising up behind Badger Farm, with a slope to the south-east enfolding the village and running down to the Dingle, while the western slope descends to the River Worfe. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Badger, Shropshire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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