Badsey, and Wickhamford, with the hamlet of Aldington, are all in their different ways worth a visit.  Badsey in addition to its church has many interesting old houses; and at Wickhamford the church and manor form an attractive group.  In the church are some fine canopied monuments, of Jacobean style, of the Sandys family, who owned the adjacent manor house—­a building of stone and timber, much of it dating from the sixteenth century.  The circular dovecote belonging to monastic times is carefully preserved.

Bretforton, with its church built by the monks of Evesham, lies on the road between Badsey and Honeybourne.

The villages of Middle and South Littleton have been little affected by modern enterprise.  They may be reached by way of Offenham or Bengeworth, or from the village station.  In South Littleton the long, narrow church though much spoiled by restoration tells of the care of the parent Abbey at least as far back as the thirteenth century.  Opposite the church is a striking brick house, dignified even in its present degraded condition.  With windows blocked, neglected garden, and used only as a storehouse for the farm at the back, it suggests the haunted mansion of the imagination.  The building dates from about the year 1700; and the beauty of the design, especially of the roof with its chimneys and its dormers, is worthy of a better fate.  A field path at the end of the street soon brings us to Middle Littleton.  Among the ricks and outhouses we catch sight of the grey stone gables of the manor house, with the perpendicular church tower so familiar in the district, close beside it.  The old cross is thrown into relief by the dark and spreading yew, and a natural picture is completed by the sombre walls and tower of the church.

To the lover of architecture, or mediaeval history, the greatest interest will attach to the large tythe barn which we come to on emerging into the field from the further side of the churchyard.  The beautiful masonry and mouldings, the fine doorways and delicately designed finials at once mark the work as belonging to the fourteenth century, and in the chronicles of Evesham Abbey we read that it was built in the time of John de Ombresley who held the abbacy from 1367 to 1379.

In addition to the churches already mentioned St. Egwin’s Church at Honeybourne was also in the “Deanery of the Vale,” and under the special charge and jurisdiction of the Abbey.  It may be reached either by road or rail.  The fine tower and spire stamp it, at a glance, as different in style from the other churches of the neighbourhood; and these belong probably to the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.  The porch, like that of Hampton, has a solid stone roof and dates from a century later.  The chancel we learn was built by Abbot Brokehampton about 1300.  The beautiful timber roof, of the Tudor period, has lately been most carefully repaired, and the interior replastered in the true mediaeval manner.