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
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 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
- Dec 2021: The "Battle" of Blackminster - transfer of Blackminster from Offenham to Badsey in 1949
- Dec 2021: Patrick Sparrow – Treasurer of Badsey Flower Show for over 40 years
- Dec 2021: A Wickhamford Protest of 40 years ago
- Nov 2021: Consecration of Badsey’s new burial ground
- Nov 2021: The life of Hermann Zapula – an Austrian Refugee in Wickhamford
- Nov 2021: Victory Day Celebrations in Badsey, Aldington and Wickhamford, June 1946
- Nov 2021: Mary Hope Bloxham (1797-1836) – from a Jamaican plantation to Badsey Vicarage
- Nov 2021: An Epidemic in England 1727-1730 – Wickhamford’s story
- Nov 2021: An Epidemic in England 1727-1730 – Badsey’s story
- Nov 2021: How a volcanic eruption in Iceland in 1783 affected life in Badsey & Wickhamford
- Nov 2021: 1832 Boundaries Commission Map of Evesham showing Badsey and Aldington
- Oct 2021: The Marchioness of Downshire – society hostess and landowner in Badsey and Aldington
- Oct 2021: The Early Church in the Vale of Evesham
- Oct 2021: John Jones – Of The Laurels, High Street, Badsey, a major landowner
- Oct 2021: Thomas Foley and descendants – owners of Aldington Manor for nearly a century and a half
- 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