The new once weekly bus service from Wallingford to Didcot operated by Going Forward Buses in Goring began yesterday. Five passengers from the village joined the fourteen seater minibus. Two people had joined the bus at Shillingford Hill Homes Park, three from Berinsfield and one passenger at Clifton Hampden.
The new Wednesday service for Long Wittenham has been welcomed by residents, particularly the elderly and those without transport. The Parish Council has also praised it Continue reading
Residents are reminded that because of the Easter break, waste and recycling collections will change this week.
Green, food and garden waste bin collections will be a day later than usual on Friday.
More information on waste collections after the upcoming bank holidays can be found on the South Oxfordshire District Council website: Continue reading
Twice within a week this month Long Wittenham resident Peter Surridge has come home to find his garden flooded with sewage. And this is not the first time that Mr Surridge, who lives in Lay’s Courtyard towards the eastern end of High Street, has been swamped. A similar flood occurred in April and December last year.
The cause is a blockage in a six-inch diameter pipe which serves properties on both the north and sound sides of High Street. The north side homes are on a slightly higher Continue reading
Another in our occasional series showing images and items of interest from Long Wittenham’s past.
This time, an article from the Oxford Mail dated 3rd October 1958 reporting on a parish council meeting, which suggest that, despite there being far fewer cars on the road in the late 1950s, the problem of traffic speeding through the village was not so different to today. Continue reading
South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils have asked the Parish Council to inform residents that there are a range of roles available for those eighteen-plus years of age at the local elections on Thursday 2nd May and overnight into Friday 3rd May.
The councils are looking for people to work as: Continue reading
Gardeners in the village will be please to hear that South Oxfordshire District Council’s free compost give-away is back! This year’s event, giving away locally produced compost, is on Saturday 11th May between 9am and 11am at Milton Park overflow car park, Park Drive, Milton OX14 4SR (next to Allmakes Ltd).
Take a box, bag or container (maximum of 4) and a shovel. There will also be some free recycling goodies available and the opportunity to pick up kitchen caddies and liners Continue reading
A stalwart team of residents, armed with bags, gloves and litter-picker sticks spent more than two hours last Saturday morning collecting rubbish which littered many parts of the village. Plastic bottles, paper, and cardboard were the biggest offenders.
The team also collected an astonishing array of discarded items including, old motorcycle tyres, rubber strips, empty bags of fertilizer, heavy duty plastic Continue reading
A new bus service will soon be arriving in the village. Going Forward Buses is introducing a Wallingford to Didcot service calling at Long Wittenham on Wednesdays starting on 24th April. The return journey from Broadway in Didcot will be nearly two hours later.
The 15-seater mini-bus will leave The Plough at Long Wittenham at 10.11am arriving at the Tesco store in Didcot at 10.18. Other stops are: Aldi (10.21), Broadway (10.23) and the Continue reading
Nearly one hundred and fifty residents have objected to the Kler Group’s plan to re-align parts of Didcot Road to facilitate the entrance to their housing development on the corner of Didcot Road and Fieldside.
A petition signed by one hundred and fifteen residents was sent to the planning inspectorate and a further thirty online protests were lodged. Continue reading
More than thirty people attended the meeting in the village hall last evening to hear a progress report on the Community Hub from Chris Brotherton, director of Thomas Homes, the parish council’s chosen developer.
Mr Brotherton presented a plan of the site and showed indicative views of the housing, schools and village hall. He said that there would be a mix of traditional red brick and Continue reading
