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.
- 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