Do come along to the Apple Day at the Pavilion. Sunday, 12th October 12 - 4 pm. Bring your family and friends. In it's 12th year it is by far the biggest and best in South Oxfordshire and is a firm favourite in the village events calendar.
Local Events
Keen on history? The WI have invited Robert Seatter (poet in residence) for a talk about Kelmscott Manor, the home of William Morris. 14th October at the Village Hall at 7.30. All welcome.
The Community Association invite members of our village community to join them for a glass of wine at their AGM on 29th October at 7.30 pm to hear about their work and events over the past year and to learn about their future plans.
Local News
Just to remind you that you can see Corinne and Mouse's weekly newsletter, under the Community heading (top of website), featuring all the Red Lion News. All the up and coming events at the pub as well as what they are offering as Take Aways each week.
The annual Flower and Produce Show is looking for a new committee to take over the running of the tent. For further details, please contact Alison Hedges or Helen Satchell
A reminder from Kings Meadow Tennis Club that Pickleball is available on the tennis courts. Both courts have been painted with orange lines to mark out a PB court. Currently there are two session a week. Tuesday evening 6 - 7 and Friday afternoon 2 - 4. It is huge fun and suits all ages.
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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