The Green
The Green was the name for the wide alley running off the south side of Brewers Lane east of Chapel Street. The map below has been adapted from the original. Note especially the main street turning east at the Manor House and continuing along what is now Old Post Office Lane and The Green footpath. This simplified map was redrawn in 1983 by Michael J. Barnard for A Brief History of Badsey and Aldington.
As was common at the time of enclosure, the Green was allocated to the adjoining landowner, Joseph Jones. What remains today by that name is the footpath that runs from the junction of Brewers’ Lane, across The Lankets, and down to the end of Old Post Office Lane where it joined the old road to Evesham, joining Bretforton Road at Hither Green.
It is interesting to note that amongst the late Victorian market gardeners’ villas that predominate in Chapel Street and Brewers Lane there are several much older buildings that must have been around the edge of The Green, namely Stone Cottage and The Forge on Chapel Street, plus 14 & 16 Brewers Lane, two further cottages (demolished in the 1860s), and18, 20 & 22 Brewers Lane which remain today. When Joseph Jones sold five lots of land and property bounded on the north by Fothersway Lane (now Brewers Lane) and on the south by Pitchness Lane (now Badsey Fields Lane) on 15th August 1831, one was described as follows –
