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The derivation of the names of the surrounding settlements also seems to suggest that Badsworth was the centre of power.
Badsworth = Baeddi's worth. Baeddi is the name of the first person associated with the settlement and "worth" means an enclosure about a village.
Upton is literally the Up Town relative to Badsworth as it is on the hill above.
Thorpe means a farm or a very small outlying settlement relative to a larger village (in all probability Badsworth).
Rogerthorpe is the settlement associated possibly with rye or more or more likely a person called Rugar.
Thorpe Audlin is the settlement associated with a person named Aldeline or Aldheim although the Domesday Book simply refers to it as "Thorp".
"In Badsworth ,Upton and Rogerthorpe (Manor),2 brothers had 9 carucates & 5 bovates of land taxable where 6 ploughs are possible. Now Ilbert has 1½ ploughs and 13 villages & 11 smallholders who have 5 ploughs. A church there is and a priest. Meadow, 1½ acres; woodland pasture,1 league long & 3 furlongs wide. Value before 1066 £3; now the same.
In Thorpe (Audlin) Alsige has had 6 carucates & 3 bovates of land taxable where 5 ploughs are possible. Now Ralph has (it) from Ilbert. He himself has there 1½ ploughs and 8 villagers & 6 smallholders who have 3½ ploughs. There is there 1 millsite; meadow, 1 acre. Value before 1066 £4 now 40/-"
The names of the brothers who owned the land in 1066 are unknown. They were probably 2 brothers who inherited the estate from their father. The "Ilbert" referred to is Ilbert De Lacy of Pontefract Castle.
