It’s that time of year again folks. Love where you live and pick up litter. SATURDAY 14 MARCH from 10am in Brightwell. Contact me (Alison Wood) to reserve a litter picking kit and be allocated an area to cover.
Local Events
Time to wake up those brain cells for the Village Quiz on 14th March 7.30 pm at the Village Hall.
Another repair session is on offer at Cholsey Repair Café, which takes place on Saturday 21st March at The Cholsey Pavilion. Doors open at 10am and close at 12.45.
Local News
Dorchester are holding their Festival around the stunning location of Dorchester Abbey. 50 events packed into just 10 days. 3rd - 12th May. Programme below
A request from the village History Group for donations towards the ancient cob wall in St Agatha's churchyard. Click on poster for more details.
From 14th January you must book in advance before visiting any of the Oxfordshire household waste recyling centres. Details below.
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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