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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.
Earth Trust Little Acorns

Earth Trust Little Acorns

The Earth Trust are running two sessions for their Little Acorns on Tuesday 2nd and Thursday 4th April.  Time  10 - 11.30 at the Earth Trust Centre.   Ages 2 - 6   Price £10 per child.    Also look below for further events later in the month.

Polly Vacher talk

Polly Vacher talk

Polly Vacher is giving a talk on her exploits Wings Around the World Challenges Friday evening 5th April at 7.30 pm at the Village Hall.

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Easter bin dates

Easter bin dates

Here are the collection dates over Easter.   Don't forget to put your bins out the night before as they often collect from 6 am.
Bridge afternoon results

Bridge afternoon results

Well done to all involved in the Brightwell bridge afternoon.   A lot of hard work and a very enjoyable afternoon resulted in over £1500 for the Village Hall redevelopment fund.
Benson Lock

Benson Lock

Benson Lock may be sited in Benson 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.

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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