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Christmas Market Day

Christmas Market Day

The Red Lion is holding their first ever Christmas Market day on Saturday November 16th 1 - 5 pm.
Cholsey Repair Cafe

Cholsey Repair Cafe

This voluntary service helps to avoid worn or broken items being thrown away needlessly and takes place regularly at The Cholsey Pavilion on the third Saturday of odd-numbered months. The next session will be on Saturday 16th November 2024, from 11.00 to 13.45. No charge is made for help, although the cost of any spare parts supplied must be covered. 
Ladies Disco

Ladies Disco

Hurry, hurry, if you want to have a fabulous fun night then you really will not want to miss out on our Ladies Disco.   23rd November at the Village Hall.  19.30 - 23.00.  Tickets £5 from Village Shop.

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Cosy Cafe reopening

Cosy Cafe reopening

The Cosy Cafe is reopening 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.
Brown bins

Brown bins

Residents who are subscribed to the district council brown bin garden waste servicein South Oxfordshire or the Vale of White Horse can have extra garden waste collected for free on their normal collection day between 28th October and 8th November.  Click on picture for details.
Fairthorne Memorial Charity

Fairthorne Memorial Charity

Fairthorne Memorial Charity is the last surviving historic Brightwell cum Sotwell charity.   It exists to help those who are in distress or need in Brightwell cum Sotwell and the local area.

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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