Legendary mountaineer, Mick Fowler is coming to Brightwell and talk about his extraordinary climbing career on Friday April 10th at 7.30 pm.
Local Events
North Moreton have their Spring book sale on Saturday 11th April in North Moreton Church from 10 am until 3 pm. As usual thousands of books will be on sale with all proceeds going to support the village hall and church.
Stewart Village Hall! Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th April. Saturday 4 - 9pm and Sunday 10 - 7 pm. Preloved, vintage and designer sale. Enjoy a soft drink on arrival. All proceeds support Stewart Village Hall.
Local News
Dorchester are holding their Festival around the stunning location of Dorchester Abbey. 50 events packed into just 10 days. 3rd - 12th May. Programme below
Benson Lock may be sited in Benson but it's in the parish of Brightwell cum Sotwell. The Environment Agency have completed the work to remove the old weir structure and the walkway will be opened again on the 1st April.
A request from the village History Group for donations towards the ancient cob wall in St Agatha's churchyard has been successful. Well done everyone. Click on poster for more details.
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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