Join Fiona Rooney (a financial advisor who works for Denham Wealth Management) for an informal evening to understand more about your Financial Freedoms. Planning for tax year end, saving and investment planning etc. Details of how to reserve your space are given below. 31st January at 7 pm.
Local Events
Christingle service will take place at St James' at 4 pm on the 2nd February at St James.
WI talk on the 11th February. How to keep safe from scammers. All welcome. 7.30 pm at the Village Hall.
Local News
The Red Lion will be closed until 12 pm January 22nd to enable Corinne and Mouse to do some refurbishment. They are very much looking forward to seeing you then.
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.
The Cosy Cafe is open every Monday in the Stewart Room from 10 - 11.30. All proceeds going towards raising funds for the Village Hall Project and The National Kidney Foundation.
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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