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.
Our new publication - "A History of Badsey Flower Show"
The Badsey Society's sixth book, "A History of Badsey Flower Show" was published on Saturday 29th July, the day of the 120th Flower Show. To order a copy, please go to our publications page, which gives details of mail order or where to purchase locally.
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 2025: "They shall grow not old" – Laurence Binyon and his connection with Badsey
- May 2025: VE Day - the 80th anniversary
- May 2025: A Jackdaw at Badsey School
- May 2025: The Arts & Crafts Movement in the Cotswolds
- Apr 2025: Listen to Terry Sparrow's talk, “Badsey 1934-2025 – The Changing Scene”
- Apr 2025: Brenda Mary Carter of Wickhamford
- Apr 2025: Some 20th-century Annual Reports of Badsey Parochial Church Council
- Apr 2025: The Sharp sisters in the Wickhamford Census of 1841
- Apr 2025: Freighting Produce from Littleton & Badsey Station and Aldington Siding in 1955
- Apr 2025: Fete in Hampton on 20th July 1861
- Mar 2025: Private Albert William Holland (1898-1918) – updated information
- Mar 2025: Who lived in Wickhamford in 1951? People who probably were in the 1951 census
- Mar 2025: The Old Chapel, Aldington
- Feb 2025: Will Dallimore (1949-2025) – tribute to a one-off Badsey character
- Feb 2025: Will and John Dallimore – winners of the 2025 Tony Jerram Award
- Feb 2025: Review of The Badsey Society Year 2024 and AGM
- Feb 2025: Badsey Cricket Club – winners of the Morganite Crucible Cricket League
- Feb 2025: Badsey Cricket Club – pavilion refurbishment 2010
- Jan 2025: Aldington Siding – sending goods to market
- Jan 2025: Badsey Cricket Club – pavilion opened in 1961
- Jan 2025: Baroness Sandys (1764-1836) – Wickhamford Manor owner who might have become Queen
- Jan 2025: Badsey Recreation Club - the new Clubhouse opened in 1973
- Jan 2025: Badsey Cricket Club – players' photos
- Jan 2025: "A Will to make us Smile", a poem by Brian Smith about Will Dallimore
- Jan 2025: Horsebridge Avenue of Yesteryear
- Jan 2025: King Charles I passed through Wickhamford in 1644
- Jan 2025: The history of No 18 High Street, formerly The Sumachs Bakery
- Dec 2024: Peggy Hancock (1927-2024) – her lifelong love of Wickhamford
- Dec 2024: Lt George Mason – a letter of Condolence from France, 1917
- Nov 2024: The Chamberlain family – a triple baptism at Wickhamford in 1918
- Nov 2024: How a stone jar led to telling the story of a retired grocer who lived in Badsey in the 1880s
- Ocr 2024: Barbara Jerram (1931-2024) – farmer’s wife/army wife/African adventuress
- Oct 2024: Peter Courten (1598-1624) – 1st and last Baron of Aldington
- Oct 2024: Photos from the Jelfs Family Album
- Oct 2024: Thomas Akers - a late 17th/early 18th century mystery man
- Oct 2024: Badsey & Aldington QR Trail
- Sep 2024: The Holly Bush Inn - an 18th century pub in Badsey
- Sep 2024: John Wykewone: An Abbot of Evesham from Wickhamford
- Sep 2024: William de Wickwane, Archbishop of York 1279-1285
- Aug 2024: Nos 2 & 4 Bretforton Road, Badsey, and the terrace that never was
- Aug 2024: Two more poems about village life by Brian Smith
- Aug 2024: Women’s Land Army at Manor Farm, Wickhamford in WWI
- Jul 2024: George Higgins Hardiman of Badsey and Wickhamford - events in his life
- Jul 2024: England 6, Switzerland 0 – an epic game of football with the help of a man from Wickhamford
- Jul 2024: Wickhamford Estate Tenant’s Daughters who both Married Vicars, c1600
- Jul 2024: Once this was a village – a poem by Brian Smith
- Jun 2024: Birmingham to Badsey via Wickhamford – Beryl Redgewell and the Women’s Land Army
- May 2024: Burial Ground Extension at St James’ Church, Badsey, 1950s-1960s
- May 2024: Bertram Jones, master ivory carver of Vine Cottage, Badsey
- Apr 2024: Houses in Manor Road, Wickhamford, appearing older than their true age
- Apr 2024: Badsey Pauper Burials, 1858-1919
- Mar 2024: Poem by Brian Smith about Badsey Women’s Institute
- Mar 2024: Roman Coins at Badsey Fields
- Mar 2024: George Day – the largest landowner in Aldington at the time of Enclosure
- Mar 2024: Annie Robbins’ Voluntary Aid Detachment work in WWI
- Feb 2024: Brian Smith wins the Tony Jerram Award
- Feb 2024: The 22nd AGM and Review of the Year 2023
- Feb 2024: Hatches, Matches and Dispatches relating to Badsey people
- Feb 2024: The Lord brothers’ one-ninth share of Manor Farm gave entitlement to vote in Wickhamford
- Feb 2024: Badsey Fire Brigade, 1899-1942
- Feb 2024: Linda Core – resident of Old Post Office Lane, Badsey, for almost 60 years
- Jan 2024: Ann Brooke – a significant headstone in Wickhamford churchyard from 1750