By popular demand there will be a follow up 'Special Evening with Malcolm Emery' on Friday 21st March at 7 pm in the Village Hall.
Local Events
You know you love it! Bridge with a delicious tea all in aid of the Village Hall on the 25th March. Do come along. It's fun. £60 a table. Details of how to enter below.
Sir Laurie Bristow, ex-ambassador to Afghanistan will give a talk in aid of BSR on the 28 March.
Local News
Here is a copy of the speech that Charlie Brooker made in celebration of his father's life for those unable to hear it.
Have a look below to view the plans and elevations for the upgrade of the Jubilee Pavilion.
The Village History Group has now uploaded over 750 photographs of the village since circa 1880. Do have a look. They are fascinating. You can see them on the website by clicking on the link under History.
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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