Come along and listen to Robert Seatter the Thames Path poet 2026! A poetic journey along the Thames from source to sea. All in aid of BRS. 22nd May at 7.30pm at the Village Hall.
Local Events
Andrew Wells is giving an organ recital on the 31st May in St. Agathas church at 3.30 pm.
Village Lunch Club will be held on Tuesday, 2nd June at the Village Hall. 12.30 pm Tickets £7
Local News
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.
Nora's Kitchen has reopened. All sorts of delicious cakes, drinks and lunches.
A request from the village History Group for donations towards the ancient cob wall in St Agatha's churchyard has been successful and work has started. Do go down and have a look. It is fascinating.
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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