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Clothing Swap

Clothing Swap

Swap don't shop!  Sunday 24th March at the village hall. Bring along 5 items to swap.  Drop off 12 - 2pm and the event starts at 3pm
Bridge Afternoon

Bridge Afternoon

Come along to the village hall for an afternoon's fun bridge with a delicious tea.  March 26th 1.00 pm for 1.30 pm start.   £15 per player.
Easter Egg Trail

Easter Egg Trail

Island Farm Donkey Sanctuary is holding an Easter Egg Trail on Good Friday and Easter Sunday 11am to 3 pm.   £3 each child.

Local News

Benson Lock

Benson Lock

Benson Lock may be called Benson Lock but it 's in the parish of Brightwell cum Sotwell.   The Environment Agency are due to start soon to remove the old weir structure and hope the work will finish by autumn 2025.
Wallingford Museum new exhibitions

Wallingford Museum new exhibitions

Wallingford Museum opens on March 1st for the 2024 season with two new special exhibitions.  They are also looking for volunteers to help run the museum by being on the welcome desk for half a day every four weeks during their season (March to November)   If you would like more information please contact Jenny:  jenacarpenter@hotmail.co.uk  or 07885 189629  
Cosy Cafe

Cosy Cafe

Don't forget every Monday there is a weekly cafe in the Stewart Room from 10 - 11.30.   All proceeds going towards raising £7000 for the Village Hall Project and The National Kidney Foundation.

About our village

You may be a visitor, wanting to know more about the village with the weirdest name in South Oxfordshire or you may be a resident.   In either case, we hope you will find something here to interest you.

Brightwell-cum-Sotwell is a village of picture postcard prettiness.   Nestling in a hollow below Wittenham Clumps, it has at its heart the CAMRA award-winning Red Lion pub.   Dotted along the narrow streets are picturesque black and white thatched cottages.   There is a school and pre-school, four churches, and a village hall with a thriving volunteer-run village shop adjacent.   The parish stretches to the edge of Wallingford, but the village values its separate identity.

In estate agents' jargon, this is a sought after village, but it is much more than a pretty face. People have lived and worked here for over a thousand years. Where our forebears tilled the land, we are now more likely to toil over computers. However, farming still has an important part to play in shaping the landscape, and we remain firmly in touch with our rural roots.

This is an area that has attracted artists, musicians, scientists and visionaries. Visitors come from all over the world to Mount Vernon, home of the celebrated Bach Flower Remedies. Wild flowers grown in the garden of Mount Vernon are still used to make the mother tincture of these homeopathic treatments, and their creator, Dr Edward Bach, is buried in St James's churchyard in Sotwell.

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