Pear Tree Corner
Pear Tree Corner lies at the junction of Willersey Road and Pear Tree Lane, and gets its name from the pear trees that grew there at one time. There are just two houses at Pear Tree Corner, a pair of semi – detached houses built by Christ Church, Oxford in about 1906.
In 1815 the Enclosure Commissioners listed a mere nine roads in Badsey, and Pear Tree Lane was unique in being a “public Bridle Road and private Carriage Road and Drift Way of the breadth of twenty feet marked No 5 commencing at the Willersey Road and extending in an Eastwardly direction until it communicates with the Parish of Bretforton at Allens Gate, the Carriage Road for the use of the proprietors of Lands adjoining”.
As such it was a public thoroughfare for travellers on foot or horseback, whilst farm carts and herds of animals could only use the lane if they belonged to landowners and occupiers who lived either side of the lane. This led to a number of disagreements between various landowners and the parish of Badsey regarding payment for the upkeep of the lane which continued until 1876, when some sort of agreement seems to have been reached.