For those that missed the first opportunity to hear Jonathan Stamp's talk titled 'The Summer of 43' you can go and hear him at St Mary's Wallingford on 11th February at 7.30. No booking is required and entry is free.
Local Events
Come along and meet The Villager team and share your ideas for next year's editions. Everyone welcome. Refreshments provided. 18th February at the Village Hall. 8 pm.
On Saturday 7th March at 7.30 at the Village Hall, the Orchard Group invites you to taste eight commerical perries mostly from the trditional perry counties of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire. Also hear two short talks covering the unique qualities of the perry pear. Tickets £20 from the Village shop.
Local News
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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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