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
The Big Badsey Dig has finished! This exciting archaeological project took place over the weekend of 21st-22nd May 2022. Take a look at the pictures of the weekend. We'll let you know when a date has been set in the autumn when we shall find out what the dig has told us about Badsey and see what exciting finds have been 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.
- Aug 2022: Stag Hunts at Wickhamford in 1865 and 1868
- Jun 2022: Roy Page of Badsey and his models
- Jun 2022: Burnt Road, Wickhamford
- Jun 2022: Self-guided walk round Aldington looking at houses in the 1921 census
- Jun 2022: Self-guided walk round Badsey Central looking at houses in the 1921 census
- Jun 2022: Self-guided walk round Badsey North looking at houses in the 1921 census
- Jun 2022: Houses at the far end of Old Post Office Lane, Badsey
- Jun 2022: Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee, 2022
- Jun 2022: The Great War and the 1921 Wickhamford Census
- May 2022: Badsey's Big Dig in pictures
- 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