Badegrym Woods

The exact location and extent is not known but records show there was a wooded area between Saxham Street and Stonham.

Coppinger tells us it was still there in the 18th century.  “Henkells and Harveys in Hamlet of Saxon were adjacent to Badegrym Wood which is partly in the Manor of Thorney Keebles called Garrods”

NL (30/7/21) found early medieval references of Badegrym. mention in  ‘The civil pleas of the Suffolk Eyre of 1250’, ed Eric James Gallagher – an assize to declare if Hubert Gernegan, Walter de Baldegrim and Richard Fuetedame unjustly disseised Reynold the chaplain of Battisford of his free tenement in Thorney 

And from court rolls – ‘a Simon de Badegrym in 1349 and a John de Badegrym in the same year.

In 1511 – NL from the will of “Robert Kebyll, the elder of Saxston hamlet in the town of Stowmarket. Amongst other bequeaths a parcel of BADGRYM lying in Stonham and my closes called Doolys and Thorneycroft with a messuage called Cutts”,

Various references from  the 18th century give us a few more details of associated landowners

1711 (11th year of Reign of Queen Anne) –Between Matthew Manning, his wife Amy and  —- Girling and his wife.  50 acres situate in Stowmarket, Stowupland and Earl Stonham, some in the hamlet of Thorney saxon between the lands formerly pf Frances Codd in part and formerly William Walker’s towards the north, and Gregory Kebells and William Swift to the South, and Saxon Streete to the West and the Manor of earl Stonham called BADGRYME IN PART IN THE Manor of Thorney Kebels called GARRARDS to the East also all the messuage with a croft called SWALLOWS

     3 1/2 acres lying between a wood called BADGRIMS in the East______ close Sometimes Robert Keebels in the West in the tenure of Peter Skepper

A tenement known as FENKELLS, …. Harvys and… 50 acres lying I Stowmarket, Uplands and Earl Stonham, some in the hamlets of Saxon Thorney between the lands of Codds[1], William Walker to the North, Geoffrey Keebe=els and William Swift to the South  and SAXON STREET…   the West and  the Manor of Earl Stonham called BADGRYMS  in part of the manor of Thorney Keebels called GARRARDS to the East also all the messuage with a croft called SWALLOWS.

         A tenement …GOLS lying between a wood called BADGRIMS on the East and a close sometimes Robert Keebles.

From Ena Carter’s notes   “1715 – 50 acres of Thorney Saxon – BADGRIMI WOOD”

[1] EC notes

In 1911 From records Ena Carter found in  the Manor of Fleed Hall with Waltham’s Hall, ‘Mr Stedman, tenant of Fir Tree Farm, pays £1 3s 4d a year for Quit rents for “All those two pieces of land called BADGOONS & containing be estimation 10 acres & by the parish survey 14a 2r 5p lying & being Earl Stonahm & holden of the said Manor by copy of court Roll”

Whether Badgoons had anything to do with Bagrimi woods we dont know.