Everything you could possibly want from a quintessential village event. A Flower and Produce Show, Coconut Shy, the ladder game or try your luck at the Bottle Tombola. So much to do and all held in the gardens of a beautiful house in the heart of the village. Saturday 4th July 2.00 - 4.30 pm at Sotwell House.
Local Events
As part of Cholsey’s Month of Music, Three Pressed Men will give a concert at The Cholsey Pavilion on Friday 10th July, starting at 7.30 pm. Tickets are £10 at the door and there will be a reasonably priced real ale bar.
On the evening of Saturday 18th July at 7.30 pm the Choir will be performing in St. Mary’s Church, Cholsey Vivaldi’s Gloria, the composer’s most famous choral piece, and this will be supported by a selection of J.S. Bach’s Cantatas.
Local News
Wallingford Museum's annual Family Archaeology day is coming up fast. Saturday 25th July is your opportunity to meet our local archaeologists, find out more about digging in Wallingford and the local area as well as getting hands on with archaeology. This is a drop in event running from 11am to 4 pm. Normal museum admission prices apply.
Message from Oxfordshire Rural Services. How to help wildlife during the upcoming heatwave
With temperatures set to soar this week our local wildlife will be struggling to find water, shade, and safe places to cool down. Do look at list below to see how we can all do our bit to help.
South Oxfordshire District Council are expanding their livestreaming to include full council meetings. You can now easily watch key decisions live or on catchup. Their first full council meeting will livestream on 14th May. See below for link.
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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