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
The Big Badsey Dig has finished! This exciting archaeological project took place over the weekend of 21st-22nd May 2022. Take a look at the pictures of the weekend. We'll let you know when a date has been set in the autumn when we shall find out what the dig has told us about Badsey and see what exciting finds have been uncovered.
Recently Added Articles
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.
- Mar 2023: Badsey Mothers’ Union, 1922-2023
- Mar 2023: Local weather events in 1784-1799
- Mar 2023: A DNA match leads to the discovery of an Aldington emigrant to Canada
- Feb 2023: Fires and Thefts at Wickhamford Manor and Manor Farm (1846-1855)
- Feb 2023: Clive Richards wins the Tony Jerram Award
- Feb 2023: The Badsey Society Review of the Year 2022
- Feb 2023: Littleton & Badsey Growers – interview with Charles Binyon, 1957
- Jan 2023: Land Use in Worcestershire, 1825-1940
- Jan 2023: Emigration to America – 11 more emigrants added (Edkins and Jelfs families)
- Jan 2023: George Edkins – Wickhamford’s first Market Gardener
- Jan 2023: A Brief Stay in Badsey in 1913 opens up a new chapter in a family history
- Jan 2023: Data on the start of Horticulture in the Vale of Evesham
- Jan 2023: Problem at the Funeral of Doris Jones in Wickhamford in 1908
- Dec 2022: Wickhamford Banns Register:marriages that were abandoned - who was the "imbecile"?
- Nov 2022: The Horsfield Family of The Ridge, Knowle Hill
- Nov 2022: The Release of the 1921 Census
- Nov 2022: Wickhamford Show – 16th August 1947
- Nov 2022: William Richards - Master weaver in late 18th century Wickhamford
- Oct 2022: Ron Sidwell’s Plum Stone Collection
- Oct 2022: The state of the public footpath from Evesham to Badsey & Aldington, 1892
- Oct 2022: The Great Storm of 1703
- Oct 2022: The Colletts - Photographic record of a 20th-century Wickhamford family
- Oct 2022: The Big Badsey Dig Update
- Oct 2022: Evesham District Military Tribunal of 11th July 1916
- Oct 2022: Census of Religious Worship in Badsey and Wickhamford, 1851
- Sep 2022: Census of 1931 in Wickhamford
- Aug 2022: Badsey Soapbox Races 2022
- Aug 2022: Flower Festival at St James’ Church, Badsey, August 2022
- Aug 2022: Stag Hunts at Wickhamford in 1865 and 1868
- Jun 2022: Roy Page of Badsey and his models
- Jun 2022: Burnt Road, Wickhamford
- Jun 2022: Self-guided walk round Aldington looking at houses in the 1921 census
- Jun 2022: Self-guided walk round Badsey Central looking at houses in the 1921 census
- Jun 2022: Self-guided walk round Badsey North looking at houses in the 1921 census
- Jun 2022: Houses at the far end of Old Post Office Lane, Badsey
- Jun 2022: Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee, 2022
- Jun 2022: The Great War and the 1921 Wickhamford Census
- May 2022: Badsey's Big Dig in pictures
- May 2022: Jubilee Celebrations Past and Present
- May 2022: Queen Elizabeth II’s Golden Jubilee, 2002
- May 2022: Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee, 2012
- May 2022: King George V’s Silver Jubilee, 1935
- May 2022: Evacuation of a Christian organisation to Badsey during WWII
- May 2022: Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, 1897
- Apr 2022: Longdon Hill, Wickhamford – an accident blackspot
- Apr 2022: 150th Anniversary of the building of 5 & 6 Longdon Hill, 1872
- Mar 2022: Margaret Tyszkow – an appreciation of her life
- Mar 2022: The 1921 Census for Badsey, Aldington & Wickhamford
- Mar 2022: Photographic Survey of Badsey & Aldington 2021
- Mar 2022: Deaths of Four of Edward Marshall’s children in Wickhamford in April 1704
- Mar 2022: The census of 200 years ago, Wickhamford in 1821
- Mar 2022: Asparagus Growing in Wickhamford
- Feb 2022: Anne McCombie wins the Tony Jerram Award
- Feb 2022: The Badsey Society Review of the Year 2021
- Feb 2022: Edward Scott Ridsdale’s painting of Wickhamford Church in 1880
- Feb 2o22: The Artist, Arthur Claude Strachan, visits Aldington in 1910
- Feb 2022: In memory of Bamber Gascoigne (1935-2022) – one-time resident of Wickhamford
- Feb 2022: Alfred Lambourne King – Wickhamford Market Gardener with an interesting family
- Jan 2022: Fruit Canning at Blackminster - a short-lived enterprise, 1926-1936
- Jan 2022: The Sandys Family and their connections with the Virginia Company
- Jan 2022: Samuel Halford and his large family at the 1911 census in Wickhamford