Come along to the Village Hall for coffee, cake or lunch on the 7th December where there will be Save the Children Christmas cards for sale as well as Christmas gifts, raffle, children's activities and Father Christmas.
Local Events
Come along to BSR's candle lit carols in St James's Church. 9th December at 7 pm. An evening of favourite Christmas carols, poems and songs.
Traditional Christmas Carol Concert to include festive Clock Tower Lottery draw. Wednesday 18th December 6.30 for 7.00 pm.
Local News
Christmas dates for your diaries. Brightwell cum Sotwell Christmas Services. Click below for details.
Click on the link below to discover what is on around Oxfordshire over the festive period. Also below is a guide to council services over the Christmas and New Year period when the council offices are closed.
Massive congratulations to the Red Lion who have received the CAMRA Pub of the Season Autumn 2024 award.
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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