Badsey

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This website celebrates the history of Badsey in Worcestershire, England.
Badsey is a large, working village in the Vale of Evesham.
Within the same parish is the smaller village of Aldington.
For information about Badsey today see www.badsey.org.uk

The Last Market Gardener

Launched in July 2010, The Last Market Gardener is a major village history project led by Maureen Spinks for the Badsey Society.

Plum and apple varieties grown 100 years ago

Heritage lottery fund

Records, photographs and articles about Wickhamford
Wickhamford men in World War I

Records
Badsey Society Publications 
Census & other records UPDATED
Index of people
Index of places
Maps
MIs in the churchyard 
Parish records
Research interests
Roads and streets
School records
Vale of Evesham records

Market gardener's hovel
Market gardener's hovel on Sands Lane


Aerial photographs 2006
Buildings
Church & churchyard
Littleton & Badsey Growers 
Looking back: old photos
Photo surveys 1968 & 2008
Tour of village
Track changes: old & new photos
Wickhamford old photos NEW

Map detail

Present Day History
Enclosure Map Project
'Back Home to Badsey'
Church events
Floods of 1998 & 2007
In living memory: your recollections
Various village events
The Last Market Gardener NEW


Almonry Museum, Evesham
BMSGH - Worcestershire parishes
CADHAS - Chipping Campden
Genealogy of the North Cotswolds
Parishes around Badsey
Vale of Evesham Civic Society
Vale of Evesham History Portal
One Place Study website
Worcestershire Genealogy from Genuki

These link to historical information. Links to other village organisations appear on www.badsey.org.uk

Buildings & Places
Roads and streets, with information on individual houses
Auctions of land 1831 - 1930
Bridges of every sort 
Littleton & Badsey Station
Mill at Badsey
School history
St James Church
Wellingtonia tree
Wickhamford NEW
See also: Index of places

Asparagus pickers

Individuals & Families
Badsey as a surname
Barnard, Michael artist & historian
Barnard, William 1803 - 1892
Bent, Buckley early photographer
Binyon, C A & bells
Bloxham Family
Braby, Rev Peter
Byrd, Mary alphabet sampler
Crane, Evelyn childhood
Cull & Silvester family
Hoby memorial in church
Howarth, Lorna
Jones, Bertram ivory carver
Knight family
Price, Rev W H
Sadler, Harry poem
Seward, William martyr
Seward family
Sharp family of Aldington Mill NEW
Smith, Norah appreciation
Stanford & Crisp family 
Ted Wheatley's memoirs 
Wasley / Page letters 
Wilson family notes
See also: Index of people

Book cover

Digging for a Living

The fascinating story of the market gardening industry in Badsey and Aldington.
Book £6 - published 21 May 2011


Asum grammar: local dialect
Badsey man from London
Bellringers
Brewer's bakery
Businesses in early 20C
Childhood in Badsey poem
Children's letters 1933
Churchwardens' accounts
Churchwardens' presentments
Commercial horticulture
Evacuee's tale
Evesham Custom 
Football history
Fruit varieties 100 years ago NEW
German POWs at Manor House
Girls' Friendly Society
Guidebooks comment  
In Memoriam cards
Largest mass dial in the world? 
Littleton & Badsey Growers 
Manslaughter at Badsey
Market gardening about 1920
Old Badsey cures
Parish Magazine 1898 - 1918
Postcards 100 years ago
Post offices in Badsey 
Queen's Jubilee 1887
Roman Badsey
School history
Silver Jubilee Day 1977
South African War
Sparrow hunting around 1910
Survey: 1931 dissertation
'Trusty' Tractor
War News 1914 - 1919
Water supply
Wild plants in 1821
Wireless in 1928
Women's Institute history

Wheatsheaf Inn
The Badsey, Aldington and Wickhamford Home Guard - can you help us identify the faces?

Books
A Brief History of Badsey and Aldington
Heads and Tales - A History of Badsey School
Aldington and Badsey: Villages in the Vale
Digging for a Living: Market Gardening in Badsey and Aldington
See also: Other Badsey Society Publications

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Updated 5 January 2012.