WI is welcoming everyone to their talk on designing a sustainable garden on 13th October 7.30 at the Village Hall. They have invited Alison Quantrell to advise and discuss options for planning and designing members' gardens, bearing in mind our locality of of course climate change.
Local Events
The Village Orchard group with support from Sustainable Didcot, are hosting a screening of the People’s Emergency Briefing in Brightwell-cum-Sotwell - an eye-opening 50-minute film bringing together nine leading UK scientists and experts with the latest evidence and why it matters.
The Community Association invite members of our village community to join them for a glass of wine at their AGM on 27th October at 7.00 pm to hear about their work and events over the past year and to learn about their future plans.
Local News
Brightwell Supporting Refugees is looking for a volunteer web master - someone to maintain and manage our web site. Further information below.
If you have ever thought you would like to be more involved in our village, the Parish Council will have vacancies towards the end of this year and early next year. Do apply. Details below.
ARCh Reading Helpers, who support children across Oxfordshire discover a love of reading, are looking for volunteers.
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.
Feel free to send us your pictures, news and dates for the calendar. If you would like to advertise or create a web page for your organisation, we would also love to hear from you. Just click on the Contact link at the top, or get involved through the Facebook page.
