Places
Badger Gate
'Badger' was a pedlar, licensed to buy and sell corn, and Badger Gate is on the road to Meltham, at the edge of the parish, so presumably this was a road used in the distant past by pedlars.
It is a small settlement, hardly more than a farmstead.
For research findings by Hazel Topham, see Badger Gate records
and Manorial Records and Deeds for Badgergate
1881 Census
| Number of households in Badger Gate - 5 + 1 uninhabited | Population of Badger Gate - 20 |
| Ave household size - 4 | Ave size of nuclear family unit - 3.8 |
| Ave age of household heads - 43.6.7 | Number born outside county - 8 (Cheshire, Nottinghamshire) |
| Percent born outside Marsden - 40% | Born outside Colne Valley - 40% |
| Households with related kin - 1(5%) | Wives in paid employment - 0 |
| Quarryman - 1 | General labourer - 1 |
| Burler - 1 | Mender - 1 |
| Doffer in cotton factory - 1 | Feeder - 1 |
| Farmer (7 acres) - 1 | Blacksmith - 1 |
The quarryman could have been working in the local quarries across the road - Chain Quarries or Lingards Wood Quarry. A doffer is a worker in a cotton mill who takes full bobbins off the mule or spinning frame.
Resident families
| Anderson Smith Waldon |
Fielding Dyson Haddock |