The Parish Council has been advised by South Oxfordshire District Council that due to the adverse weather last week, all waste bin collections have been delayed by one day this week. The advice is for residents to leave their bins out for an extra day.
Residents can keep up to date using the district council website:
The Long Wittenham Lunch Club recently celebrated its twentieth birthday with a slap-up meal and wine, and fifty members raised their glasses to toast the next twenty years.
It was in December 1997 when principal organiser June Woodage spoke to villagers to see if they would be interested in joining a lunch club. Late in January 1998 a note was delivered to every home in both Long and Little Wittenham, inviting people to a get together on 12th February. On that first menu for thirty-eight members was soup, bread and cheese and a hot drink for 50 pence. Continue reading
The Parish Council will hold its monthly meeting this coming Thursday evening (8th March) at 7:30pm in the Village Hall.
Download the agenda here.
Following the success of last year’s Barn Dance, The Friends of St Mary’s Long Wittenham will be hosting another on Saturday 21st April, this time at the Sylva Wood Centre. Along with good music and dancing, there will be a buffet and a donations bar.
More details and tickets will be available soon, so put the date in your diary to be sure not to miss out on the Long Wittenham social event of the season.
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The Long Wittenham 200 Club is pleased to announce the February winners.
£10 each to:
158 S. Jarman
142 K. Tucker
153 J. Bolton
148 K. Thompson
Profits from the 200 Club go towards the maintenance and improvement of the Village Continue reading
On Sunday 9th September, the Dragon Boat Race comes to Abingdon again.
The Wittenham Wannabees (the men) were victorious last year and the ladies team (Wittenham Warriors) came in a respectable top 10 position. No mean feat against predominantly all male or mixed crews.
This year however, The Dragon Boat Race (DBR) Committee (Tom Mellor, Tory and Jason Edwards) is planning only one mixed boat entry and they need a squad of 20 people from Continue reading
In common with many communities in Oxfordshire and the rest of the country, Long Wittenham is coming under pressure from developers to build homes. Look everywhere in the near vicinity and new homes are being built or are planned. More than 3,000 houses are proposed as part of the Culham Science Village development. It is a key part of South Oxfordshire District Council’s Local Plan which is currently under scrutiny.
The parish council wants to bring residents up to date on several planning issues and needs to enlist support in managing pressures from developers. Continue reading
The next meeting of the Long Wittenham Good Neighbours Group is on Thursday 1st March at 2:30pm in the Village Hall.
Steve Brown has arranged for a speaker to talk about the work of the RNLI, and as ever, all are welcome.
See Steve’s announcement for more information.
An occasional series showing images and items of interest from Long Wittenham’s past.
This time: a couple of views of St John’s Row in the days before the motor car: Continue reading
