A reminder that defibrillator awareness training will take place on Wednesday 15th April in the Village Hall starting at 7pm.
The course will be run by the South Central Ambulance Charity.
If you would like to attend, please email Steve Brown at steve.brown@longwittenham.com to book your place. Continue reading
The Parish Council will hold its monthly meeting in the Village Hall at 7:30pm on Thursday 19th March.
All residents are invited to attend. Download the agenda here.
Oxfordshire County Council has asked the Parish Council to promote NHS Health Checks.
Getting an NHS Health Check is a great way to stay on top of your health. It’s a simple process that can give you peace of mind and help you to stay healthy.
Think of an NHS Health check as an MOT for your body. The aim of the check is to keep Continue reading
Janet Haylett, secretary of the Parochial Church Council (PCC) writes …
The PCC is aware of concerns about the trees in Ward’s Field and is taking steps to address these. Some of the trees need to be removed and the PCC has asked for an application to be made for a felling licence from the Forestry Commission to remove all the dead and potentially unsafe trees. This will take time but the work will start as soon as Continue reading
Residents who are not already subscribers to Oxfordshire County Council’s digital newsletter “Your Oxfordshire” may like to download the latest edition.
Get all the news and information in the latest edition of the Pendon Museum Newsletter.
More information on the Pendon website: www.pendonmuseum.com
Sharon Murphy writes …
Many, many years ago a tradition started here in the village: Maypole Dancing. It was introduced by Marjorie Edwards who undertook the teaching of this village tradition.
After her passing, The Girls Friendly Society (GFS) took it on, run by Joy Whitehead and Linda O’Driscol. Joy then moved to Surrey and the GFS stopped, but Joy wanted the May Continue reading
The pothole crisis in Oxfordshire must be really bad if it makes it to the BBC news website.
Read the comments from Andrew Gant, Oxfordshire County Council’s transport chief in an interview with Radio Oxford.
Wittenham WI invites villagers to its Spring “Cake & Culture” Talk on Saturday 21st March at 3pm in the Village Hall.
Lizzy Rowe’s talk will focus on the visual artists, particularly Vanessa Bell (sister to Virginia Woolf) and Duncan Grant, who lived together at Charleston Farmhouse in East Sussex. Their work, seen by some as revolutionary, is always colourful and striking and epitomises their era. Behind it are a good many stories Continue reading
The Parish Council has been advised by South Oxfordshire District Council (SODC) of a new planning application within the village.
The application, at Little House, High Street, Long Wittenham, is for the erection of a detached timber potting shed and greenhouse for private, non-commercial horticultural use incidental to the enjoyment of the primary dwelling.
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