Badsey, a village and a parish in Worcestershire. The village stands on a tributary of the river Avon, 1 mile S of Littleton and Badsey station on the G.W.R., and 2 1/2 miles ESE of Evesham. Post town, Evesham. Acreage, 1208; population, 574. The parish includes also the hamlet of Aldington, with an acreage of 675; population 173. Much of the land is devoted to market gardening. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; value, £240. Patron, Christ Church, Oxford. The church is ancient, chiefly Early English and Perpendicular, with a Norman doorway and a massive W tower with grotesque gargoyles. It was restored in 1885.