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"

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 2023:  A short-lived row of four cottages in Manor Road, Wickhamford, c1906-1936
• Jul 2023:  Portrait of Badsey, Aldington and Wickhamford in the early 1990s
• Jul 2023:  An 18th-century settlement certificate for William & Elizabeth Higgins
• Jul 2023:  Percival Saxby Dewey of Wickhamford – Analytical Chemist and Author
• Jul 2023:  Small Pits, Big Ideas - conclusions
• Jun 2023:  Ada and Daisy Knight’s experiences of an orphanage in Bristol
• Jun 2023:  Pitchers Hill, Wickhamford – over a thousand years of history
• May 2023:  Coronation of King Charles III, 2023
• May 2023:  Ruby Collett – Assistant Inspector of Horticulture, Ministry of Agriculture
• Apr 2023:  Ministry of Agriculture Advice to Farmers and Growers
• Apr 2023:  Coronation Celebrations Past and Present in Badsey, Aldington and Wickhamford
• Apr 2023:  Coronation of King Edward VII, 1902
• Apr 2023:  Coronation of King George V, 1911
• Apr 2023:  Coronation of King George VI, 1937
• Apr 2023:  Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, 1953
• Mar 2023:  Badsey Mothers’ Union, 1922-2023
• Mar 2023:  Local weather events in 1784-1799
• Mar 2023:  A DNA match leads to the discovery of an Aldington emigrant to Canada
• Feb 2023:  Fires and Thefts at Wickhamford Manor and Manor Farm (1846-1855)
• Feb 2023:  Clive Richards wins the Tony Jerram Award
• Feb 2023:  The Badsey Society Review of the Year 2022
• Feb 2023:  Littleton & Badsey Growers – interview with Charles Binyon, 1957
• Jan 2023:  Land Use in Worcestershire, 1825-1940
• Jan 2023:  Emigration to America – 11 more emigrants added (Edkins and Jelfs families)
• Jan 2023:  George Edkins – Wickhamford’s first Market Gardener
• Jan 2023:  A Brief Stay in Badsey in 1913 opens up a new chapter in a family history
• Jan 2023:  Data on the start of Horticulture in the Vale of Evesham
• Jan 2023:  Problem at the Funeral of Doris Jones in Wickhamford in 1908
• Dec 2022:  Wickhamford Banns Register:marriages that were abandoned - who was the "imbecile"?
• Nov 2022:  The Horsfield Family of The Ridge, Knowle Hill
• Nov 2022:  The Release of the 1921 Census
• Nov 2022:  Wickhamford Show – 16th August 1947
• Nov 2022:  William Richards - Master weaver in late 18th century Wickhamford
• Oct 2022:  Ron Sidwell’s Plum Stone Collection
• Oct 2022:  The state of the public footpath from Evesham to Badsey & Aldington, 1892
• Oct 2022:  The Great Storm of 1703
• Oct 2022:  The Colletts - Photographic record of a 20th-century Wickhamford family
• Oct 2022:  The Big Badsey Dig Update
• Oct 2022:  Evesham District Military Tribunal of 11th July 1916
• Oct 2022:  Census of Religious Worship in Badsey and Wickhamford, 1851
• Sep 2022:  Census of 1931 in Wickhamford
• Aug 2022:  Badsey Soapbox Races 2022
• Aug 2022:  Flower Festival at St James’ Church, Badsey, August 2022
• 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