Welcome to the website of The Badsey Society where we invite you to enjoy photos, memories and historical research about the people and places that make up the village of Badsey, the hamlet of Aldington and the neighbouring parish of Wickhamford. To view, just browse and open the categories listed on the left, or enter text into the Search box.

The Big Badsey Dig – Small Pits, Big Ideas Project

If you live in Badsey, now is your chance to participate in an exciting archaeological project which will take place in May 2022. Find out how you can play your part in uncovering the past. Who knows what exciting finds might be uncovered!

Recently Added Articles

In these strange times, when people may be spending long periods of time at home self-isolating, now is the time to explore the history of our villages. Why not write something yourself? We welcome well-researched articles relating to Badsey, Aldington or Wickhamford. Please send as a Word document to history@badsey.net; photos should be sent separately as JPEGs.

Oct 2021: William Smith (1877-1921) - Tenant Farmer then Owner of Pitchers Hill Farm
Oct 2021: Ella Margaret Carter - Northumberland-based owner of Pitchers Hill Farm
Sep 2021: The Crypt of the Church of St John the Baptist, Wickhamford
Sep 2021: Wickhamford Dairy and Restaurant, Bridge Street, Evesham
Sep 2021: Albert Sawyer (1784-1830) of Wickham House, Wickhamford
Aug 2021: Hannah Hall's tragic death at Wickhamford in 1863
Aug 2021: The Knitted Bible comes to Badsey
Aug 2021: Colin Hill of Hill's Nursery, Wickhamford
Aug 2021: Sarah Bradley and her Bible – The First Schoolmistress of Badsey School
Jul 2021: Charlie Cox of Wickhamford (1921-2021) – his WWII experiences
Jul 2021: The Absence of Bubonic Plague in Wickhamford and Badsey in 1665-1666
Jul 2021: Badsey Flower Show 1926
Jun 2021: Meadway House – a listed house on High Street, Badsey
Jun 2021: Listed Buildings in Badsey, Aldington and Wickhamford
Jun 2021: William Smith – a minor Badsey landowner at the time of Enclosure
May 2021: National Celebration of Peace – in London, Wickhamford and Badsey, July 1919
May 2021: Peace Day Centenary at Badsey First School, July 2019
May 2021: Alfred Halford – Victorian Soldier and Wickhamford Fruit Grower
May 2021: William Laslett, MP – Very nearly the owner of the Wickhamford Estate in 1869
May 2021: Wickhamford Rifle Range
Apr 2021: Poor Law Overseers of Wickhamford, 1859-1895
Apr 2021: Frederick William Bullock – Mysterious life of the builder of Oxley House, Wickhamford
Apr 2021: The Big Badsey Dig – Introduction to the Small Pits, Big Ideas Project
Apr 2021: Floods in Wickhamford 1968
Apr 2021: Thomas Spragg – A 17th-century Commissioner in the Court of Chivalry
Apr 2021: Bazaar and Garden Fete at Wickhamford Manor in 1901, reported around the world
Apr 2021: The Field family – Wickhamford Fields full of Forenames
Apr 2021: Edward Appelbee – A 19th-century Badsey landowner
Mar 2021: Edith Carr of Wickhamford – convicted of assault in 1913
Mar 2021: Winchcombeshire (1007-1017) – a short-lived county adjoining Wickhamford and Badsey
Mar 2021: Albert Wyles of Badsey – Inventor of one of the first Motor Ploughs
Mar 2021: John & Anne Wilson – wealthy Wilsons of 18th-century Wickhamford
Mar 2021: Charles Henry Stewart – old soldier turned market gardener
Mar 2021: Wickhamford Brook
Mar 2021: Wickhamford Gypsies and the Military Service Act of 1916
Feb 2021: Badsey Pig Club, 1902-1953
Feb 2021: A Court case concerning a motorcycle accident on Pitchers Hill in 1911
Feb 2021: Wickhamford Manor ownership (8th-16th century) before the Sandys Family
Feb 2021: 19th-century Anti-vaccinationists in Badsey
Feb 2021: Alice Bowker – A 17th-century Wickhamford Quaker
Feb 2021: Robert Dover – Steward of the Wickhamford Court Baron
Feb 2021: Mary Dore wins the Tony Jerram Award
Feb 2021: The Badsey Society Review of the Year 2020
Feb 2021: Wickhamford Parish Council Burial Ground
Feb 2021: Wickhamford Parish Council Monumental Inscriptions
Feb 2021: Wickhamford Parish Council Burial Register, 1957-present day
Feb 2021: Obituaries and In Memoriam in the Parish Magazine – Badsey
Feb 2021: Obituaries and In Memoriam in the Parish Magazine – Wickhamford
Feb 2021: Burials of Badsey Parishioners not buried at Badsey
Feb 2021: Burials of Wickhamford Parishioners not buried at Wickhamford
Jan 2021: Did your Grandad keep a pig? – mine did
Jan 2021: A 19th-century Nail
Jan 2021: National Farm Survey – Wickhamford Growers assessed as having Poor Management
Jan 2021: From Aldington to Ohio – the bigger picture
Jan 2021: Hubert Lindsell Richards – Builder of Wickhamford’s first Glasshouse Nursery
Jan 2021: “Lift up thine eyes” – photo quiz results
Jan 2021: Arthur Plant – The passing of an Aldington celebrity
Jan 2021: From Aldington to Ohio – The story of Annie Bell and William Marsh
Jan 2021: Gordon Lashford – the voice of Badsey Flower Show for over 40 years
Jan 2021: The Pickering family of Wickhamford who became the Freeman family of Massachusetts
Dec 2020: Snake Buckles found in Badsey
Dec 2020: Wickhamford in 1666 – notes by the Reverend Peter Braby
Dec 2020: Badsey in 1866 – notes by the Reverend Peter Braby
Dec 2020: Roman Spoon from Badsey
Nov 2020: A History of the Badsey Society website
Nov 2020: The Badsey Martyrs – passive resistance to the Education Act of 1902
Nov 2020: Lionel Edward Horne – from passive resistance to pillar of the community
Nov 2020: Harold John Cave – A leading light at Badsey Rangers Football Club
Nov 2020: “God bless you all!” – Letter from a German Prisoner of War to Harold Grinnell of Badsey
Nov 2020: Wickhamford Residents Volunteering for War Work during WWII
Nov 2020: Longevity in Wickhamford
Nov 2020: Badsey Silk Mill – a short-lived enterprise
Nov 2020: John Thorp – owner of Badsey Silk Mill
Nov 2020: Wingfield Gee & Sons – silk throwsters of Badsey
Nov 2020: Thomas Bolland Langley – his double life: Reverend Gentleman or silk throwster?
Nov 2020: William Parker – owner of Badsey Silk Mill Cottages
Nov 2020: Letter to a Badsey family from a Second World War German prisoner of war
Nov 2020: Miscellaneous items from Sladden & Collier Brewery, Evesham
Nov 2020: The Way to London – Vale of Evesham Roads, 1350-1880
Nov 2020: William Forrest – A 17th-century yeoman of Badsey
Oct 2020: Centenary of Badsey Recreation Ground – Official unveiling of the information board
Oct 2020: How Badsey Recreation Ground came into being – a poem by Brian Smith
Oct 2020: Recording of Cyril and Juliet Sladden’s reminiscences of growing up in Badsey
Oct 2020: Francis Horne – A 17th-century resident of Badsey
Oct 2020: Edmund Thomas Ladbrooke Huxley – From Wickhamford to the Indian Army
Oct 2020: Patrick Dilnot de la Cour Sladden – From New Zealand to Badsey via the Far East
Oct 2020: Glove-making in Wickhamford
Oct 2020: Olympic Torch Relay through Wickhamford, 2012
Oct 2020: Jack Main – Wickhamford Sub-post Master
Oct 2020: Sale of Thomas Byrd Junior's property at Badsey and Aldington, 1911
Oct 2020: Wickhamford Stores application, 1946
Oct 2020: Illegitimacy in 18th century Wickhamford
Sep 2020: Nature Notes – flora and fauna of Badsey, Aldington and Wickhamford
Sep 2020: Bite-sized Badsey – Will Dallimore’s short films
Sep 2020: Thomas Timbrill – An early 18th-century tenant of Wickhamford Manor
Sep 2020: Jew's harps found in Badsey
Sep 2020: Cottages on the corner of High Street and Mill Lane, Badsey
Sep 2020: Rosemary Loehnis (née Ryder) – A London debutante who moved to Wickhamford in WWII
Sep 2020: Happy Birthday, Synehurst! Celebrating 100 years
Aug 2020: Exciting find in a Badsey garden
Aug 2020: Exciting find in an Aldington garden
Aug 2020: The first census - who might have lived in Wickhamford in 1801
Aug 2020: Philip Sparrow – A Prisoner of War in Java during the Second World War
Aug 2020: VJ Day in Badsey
Aug 2020: Michael Barnard – A Badsey artist and market gardener: a life in pictures
Aug 2020: Whitfurrows Farm, Pitchers Hill, Wickhamford