Christmas Concert to include festive Clock Tower Lottery draw. Wednesday 17th December 6.30 for 7.00 pm. Go along and listen to performances from the School choir. The Tubthumpers, Barber Shop Singers, Christmas Carols and the Clock Tower Lottery draw with a big £500 extra prize. Adults £5 and children are free.
Local Events
Its the final. Come along and watch live all the glitz and glamour on Brightwell's fabulous big screen. Saturday, 20th December. Free entry and bring your own food. Doors open 30 minutes before show starts.
Come along to Brightwell's traditional carols around the Christmas Tree. Christmas Eve at the Square starting at 5.30. It's Christmas!
Local News
There have been changes to the planned admissions arrangements for 2027 - 2028 for Brightwell cum Sotwell C of E Primary School. Please see details below.
Sue Robson has set up the Red Lion Scottish Music Session. The aim being to encourage people to get together to make music in a relaxed setting for fun. Please go along. Second Tuesday of every month 7.30 - 9.30 pm.
NHS patients are being threatened with being removed from their GP surgeries in a new, frightening phone scam. The public is being urged to stay alert as fraudsters impersonate receptionists and doctors in automated fake phone calls.
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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