WI talk on the 14th January. Advice & Demonstration by interns from McTimoney college of Chiropractice
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A pastoral comedy written by Adam Ganz and directed by Marc Isaacs. Friday 17th January 7.30 pm. Tickets £10 from the shop.
On Saturday 18th of January there will be a chance to revisit some of the fabulous short films from the Brightwell Film Festival back in the day. Showing in the Village Hall at 7.30. There will be a bar, a raffle and a guaranteed good laugh. Tickets £5 from the village shop.
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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 18th January 2025, from 11.00 to 13.45. No charge is made for help, although the cost of any spare parts supplied must be covered.
Here's a way to get fit after Christmas. Come and play Badminton. Every Wednesday evening in the Stewart Hall. They are a friendly, social group and everyone is welcome (over 18}. It is a fun way to exercise and they would love to welcome new people.
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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