English : habitational name for someone from Bagnall in
Staffordshire, named with the Old English personal name Badeca,
Baduca (from a short form of the various compound names with
the first element beadu ‘battle’) + Old English halh
‘nook’, ‘recess’ (see Hale) or holt ‘wood’ (see
Holt).
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