Time to fill those empty spaces in your garden? Come along to the Save the Children Plant Sale which is taking place on the 10th May on The Square from 10 - 12 pm.
Local Events
Visit Earth Trust this May Day Bank Holiday weekend for a fun-filled day of nature-based play and fun on the farm! 3rd to 5th May from 10am - 4 pm.
Parish Council AGM is taking place on the 6th May at 7.00 pm. All welcome.
Local News
You decide. On 1st May, you can have your say on who you want to represent you in local, regional and national decisions. These are the things that affect your day to day life in Oxfordshire, like social care and education, road maintenance and development, and special educational needs and disability (SEND) support.
Wallingford Museum have just updated their information on all the activities and exhibitions they have planned for the summer. Lots to interest everybody.
Here is a copy of the speech that Charlie Brooker made in celebration of his father's life for those unable to hear it.
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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