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.
- 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
- 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