Come along to the Spring Fair on Saturday 17th May 2 - 4 pm. Lots of excitement including teddy bear parachute drop, human fruit machine and lots more!
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Something rural! Oxfordshire Young Farmers County Show and Rally on Saturday 17th May at Blewbury. Something for everyone. Vintage machinery. Dog Show, Go Karts, Bouncy Castle and much more.
This voluntary service helps to avoid worn or broken items being thrown away needlessly and takes place regularly at The Cholsey Pavilion on the third Saturday of odd numbered months. The next session will be on Saturday 17th May 2025, from 11.00 to 13.45. No charge is made for help, although the cost of any spare parts supplied must be covered.
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There's still time to join the Clock Tower Lottery for the next draw which will take place at the Spring Fair on 17th May. Sign up now with the chance to win £200 and to help save the Village Hall. Thank you to everyone who supports the hall through the lottery.
Brightwell Village Hall Artists are exhibiting their work in the Stewart Village Hall from 16th - 18th May. 10am - 5 pm
A very successful sale. They raised an incredible £1200. In addition the garage sale and teas raised a further £200. Well done all. All for Save the Children.
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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