Do come and listen to South Oxfordshire Choir's wonderful Christmas concert this Saturday 2nd December at 7.30 pm in St. Mary's Church, Cholsey
Local Events
Brightwell Art Club are holding their annual exhibition on Saturday 2nd December from 10.00 am at the Village Hall
Come along and listen to Winter Words and Music on Sunday 3rd December, 5.00 - 6.30 pm. New poems and old songs with Robert Seatter.
Local News
Some advice from our Town Council on feeding Red Kites.
The Orchard Group would like to remind everyone that the Village Press is available for hire.
At the parish council annual meeting earlier this year a few people said they would be interested in joining a WhatsApp group to volunteer for ad hoc small jobs that need doing around the village. If you would like further details please contact Gabrielle at bcsparishcouncil@gmail.com
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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