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.
Badsey Recreation Ground Centenary – 1920-2020
The year 2020 is the centenary of Badsey Recreation Ground. To mark this occasion, a booklet has been written about its history and an information board has been erected on the Recreation Ground near the Sands Lane entrance.
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.
- 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
- Mar 2020: Blackshirts in Badsey
- Mar 2020: Wickhamford Market Garden Irrigation System
- Mar 2020: Reuben Finch of Whitfurrows, Wickhamford - a mischievous life
- Mar 2020: Wickhamford pauper burials, 1853-1913
- Mar 2020: Wickhamford blacksmiths and wheelwrights
- Mar 2020: Dennis Cooke Voelcker of the Indian Army and Field Farm, Wickhamford
- Mar 2020: John Gilbert Mills, celebrated organist and resident of The Ridge, Knowle Hill
- Mar 2020: Michael Barnard Tribute - US Airmen parachute down at Wickhamford
- Feb 2020: The Hall houses on Willersey Road, Badsey
- Feb 2020: Walter Hall (1893-1945) of Badsey – his connection with “Walter’s at the Wheatsheaf”
- Jan 2020: George Joseph Sutton (1882-1964) and family of Wickhamford
- Jan 2020: Fatal Air Crash at Wickhamford in 1941
- Jan 2020: Two knights of the realm and their WWII occupancy of The Ridge, Knowle Hill
- Jan 2020: Hall Family – a top ten name in Badsey and Wickhamford in the 19th and 20th centuries
- Jan 2020: Southern Family of Wickhamford – the WWII service of eight sons of Maria Southern
- Jan 2020: Marcus Hill, Evesham MP 1837-1852, later 3rd Baron Sandys, owner of Wickhamford estate
- Jan 2020: James Hall: A Badsey Grower
- Jan 2020: Brazier Family collection - mainly photographic items collected in 1971
- Jan 2020: Tony Royle of The Little Cottage, Badsey – Cartoonist “Belinda” for The Daily Mirror
- Jan 2020: Robert Taylor and family of Elm Farm and Rosebank – a pictorial record
- Jan 2020: Cox Family - a top ten name in Wickhamford in the 20th century
- Jan 2020: Second World War casualties with Wickhamford connections