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 Events
Come along and watch live all the glitz and glamour on Brightwell's fabulous big screen. Saturday, 1st November. Free entry. Bar and nibbles available.
Peter Adamson and friends are hosting am event in aid of Brightwell Supporting Refugees, on Sunday 2nd November in St Mary-le-More Parish Church, Wallingford.
Local News
The Red Lion are hosting a Cream Tea Afternoon on Friday 7th November at 2.30pm. There are a limited number of tickets at £25 per person. You will need to pay a £10 deposit directly at the pub to secure your place, the remainder to be paid on the day.
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
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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