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.

Happy Christmas, everyone, and all the best for 2026

A festive postbox outside Badsey Post Office - thank you to the knitters who keep our postbox suitably decorated.

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.

Dec 2025: Leesa Sandys-Lumsdaine (1936-1985) – artist with a Wickhamford Connection
Nov 2025: Charles Binyon's diaries - autobiographical notes updated
Nov 2025: Yeomen in Wickhamford in the early 19th Century
Oct 2025: A 1915 postcard throws more light on Belgian Refugees in Badsey during WWI
Oct 2025: The creation of Littleton and Badsey Station
Oct 2025: The last days of steam at Blackminster
Oct 2025: Frank Banner (1881-1956) - Wickhamford Licensee and Market Gardener
Sep 2025: The Stratton connection with Badsey Silk Mill
Sep 2025: Badsey contributions to Protestant churches and families in Poland and Bohemia, 1658
Sep 2025: Badsey and Wickhamford contributions to Foreign Missions, 1925
Sep 2025: Hovels in the Vale of Evesham
Sep 2025: George Lloyd – a hovel dweller of Sands Lane, Badsey
Sep 2025: Aldington Craft Bazaar in Aid of Badsey Church Restoration, 1890
Sep 2025: Theft of a Horse in Aldington in 1686
Aug 2025: The Marshall Family of Badsey and their connection with The Wheatsheaf Inn
Aug 2025: Sprout Picking Champion – a tall tale by Brian Smith
Aug 2025: BBC Programme on the Vale of Evesham, 1940
Aug 2025: The All England Sprout Picking Championship
Aug 2025: Evesham’s Roman Ford - That Wasn’t
Jul 2025: A House through Time - Harrington House, High Street, Badsey
Jul 2025: Harrington House – The story of a late 20th-century make-over
Jul 2025: Badsey Village Church – a poem by Terry Sparrow
Jul 2025: Flax Growing in Badsey, Aldington and Wickhamford
Jul 2025: The Restoration of St James' Church, Badsey, 1885
Jul 2025: Wickhamford Memorial Hall Committee, 1951
Jul 2025: The Wheatsheaf Inn Darts Team, 1940s-1950s
Jul 2025: A poem by Brian Smith about Badsey Butcher's Shop and the Hartwells
Jul 2025: Helen Hartwell –Teleprinter Operator at BBC Wood Norton
Jul 2025: Bill Jones, known to all as 'Cunger' - the Badsey road man
Jul 2025: Transcription of the Banns of Marriage Register for Badsey with Aldington, 1922-1961
Jun 2025: Badsey Church in 1852
Jun 2025: Wickhamford Church in 1852
Jun 2025: Wickhamford Photos - Track Changes
Jun 2025: Aaron Evans – an 1831 Militia defaulter originally from Wickhamford
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