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!

The Badsey Society wins website award

The Badsey Society was honoured to have been the first recipient of the inaugural One-Place Studies website award – read all about it here.

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.

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
Jul 2020: The Empey sisters – from Ireland to Wickhamford
Jul 2020: Anna Tucker – from Germany to Badsey
Jul 2020: Land at Blackminster
Jul 2020: Pethard Family – a top ten name in Badsey and Wickhamford in the 19th and 20th centuries
Jul 2020: Wickhamford Quarry
Jun 2020: Aldington people mentioned in “Grain and Chaff from an English Manor”
Jun 2020: William George Pethard - Badsey fruit grower and commission agent
Jun 2020: John Douglas Pethard of Badsey - tragically drowned in Austria in 1937
Jun 2020: Wickhamford Market Gardening 1945 - aerial view
Jun 2020: Hop-growing at Aldington, 1870s-1901
Jun 2020: Wickhamford hop-growing: a short-lived enterprise
Jun 2020: Wickhamford war-time servicemen's weddings
Jun 2020: Photo gallery of Wickhamford weddings
Jun 2020: Photo gallery of Badsey weddings
Jun 2020: Ethel Mildred Winfield - a Wickhamford bride from South Africa
Jun 2020: Back Garden Films - what the Dallimore brothers of Badsey have been up to in lockdown
Jun 2020: Nancy Pethard - Wickhamford nurse and midwife
Jun 2020: The Quiet Streets of Badsey
Jun 2020: Edward John Pethard - Wickhamford carpenter and wheelwright
Jun 2020: Edward Pethard's Account Book
May 2020: Roger Savory – From Badsey to New Jersey: bellringing across two continents
May 2020: Dunkirk Survivors arrive in Badsey
May 2020: The Spanish Flu Epidemic in Badsey, 1918-1919
May 2020: The Coronavirus Chronicles
May 2020: Badsey's Drinking Fountain
May 2020: Silver Jubilee, 1977 – The Day in pictures
May 2020: The Turnpike Road through Wickhamford
May 2020: Badsey Servicemen who died in the Second World War
May 2020: VE Day 2020 in Badsey, Aldington and Wickhamford
May 2020: VE Day 1945 in Badsey
May 2020: Wickhamford Church in the mid-1600s
May 2020: Evesham Abbey Deer Park in Aldington
May 2020: John Pickup Lord - major landowner in Badsey, Aldington and Wickhamford
May 2020: Badsey Manor - putting the Manor in context
May 2020: Early 20th century deeds for Badsey Manor - archive item
May 2020: Sale of Ann Collet's arable or garden land at Aldington in 1866
May 2020: Sale of Mary Collett's estate at Badsey and Aldington in 1865
Apr 2020: Badsey Pike – an 18th-century Toll Road
Apr 2020: Demolished cottages in Wickhamford
Apr 2020: Aldington Toll House
Apr 2020: Arthur Newman of Woodlands, Longdon Hill, Wickhamford