Binyon Close, Badsey

Click on the image above to see this road on the Worcestershire County Council GIS website with the digitised historical maps. Click on the image below to view the original enclosure map.

Photos taken 2006. Aerial photos: a7019 a7112

BINYON CLOSE

This private development of 23 bungalows (13 detached and 10 semi-detached) was built primarily in the 1960s. The numbers are 1-24 with no number 13. Numbers 22-24 Binyon Close, situated at the northern end of the cul-de-sac, were built in the 1980s. Here are details about the planning application for Binyon Close (link to be added).

The road was named after Charles Arthur Binyon, OBE (1874-1963), a Manager of Badsey School for over 60 years and Chairman for 30 years and a founder member of Littleton & Badsey Growers. The son of a clergyman, educated at St Paul’s School, London, and brother of the poet Laurence Binyon, Charles Binyon devoted his adult life to the welfare of Badsey. The area of land on which Binyon Close was built was the plot of land of which he was tenant for many years. It was some of the best market garden land in the village.

See Plan of Mr Binyon's garden 1933.

In 1812, at the time of the Badsey Enclosure Act, this plot of land was an old enclosure which belonged to Joseph Jones. It was called Sand Close and amounted to 3a 3r 22p. Joseph Jones sold this at some stage during the 19^th century to siblings Sarah, William and Mary Byrd. The land passed by inheritance to their nephew, William Byrd (1841-1902). William Byrd got into financial difficulties and appeared in a debtors’ court in 1880; an Abstract of Title dated 1890 shows that William Smith, the Trustee, was entitled to all William Byrd’s land-holdings, and began to sell off the land. This field, together with land to the east, now comprised a field of 16a 1r 20p called Sands and Harper’s Close. It was sold off as garden land and continued to be used as such until the 1960s.