The Parish Council has been advised by the Oxfordshire County Council (OCC) Traffic and Road Safety Team, that the speed survey equipment to monitor the effect of the 20mph speed limit in the village will be installed on 16th November.
The equipment is expected to be in place for about a week. The data will be passed to OCC about ten days after the equipment is collected, following which, the Continue reading
The village primary school will be holding its Christmas Fayre on Saturday 3rd December between 11am and 2pm.
There will be Santa’s grotto, a raffle with many great prizes, Christmas stalls, games, Christmas activities, food and refreshments, and much, much more. Continue reading
The annual village fireworks night was held last week but with a different organiser and location from previous years.
It took place on Friday 4th November at the home of Long Wittenham Athletics Club at Bodkin’s Field with a display of fireworks followed by a bonfire. An estimated crowd of four to five hundred people attended. Continue reading
A reminder that Opera Anywhere will be performing Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera HMS Pinafore at St Mary’s Church on Saturday 12th November starting at 7:30pm.
Tickets are £20 for adults and £10 for under 18s and are available from the Opera Anywhere website or from Dom Jarman on 01865 Continue reading
The Parish Council will hold its monthly meeting in the Village Hall at 7:30pm on Thursday 10th November.
All residents are invited to attend. Download the agenda here.
Residents who are not already subscribers to Oxfordshire County Council’s digital newsletter “Your Oxfordshire” may like to download the latest edition.
John Stimson, the former chairman of South Oxfordshire District Council (SODC) and member of Long Wittenham Parish Council, has died. He was eighty-three and had been suffering from cancer and dementia for the last twelve months.
Mr Stimson, who lived in Westfield Road for many years, was chairman of SODC from 2000 to 2001. A Liberal-Democrat, he was a member of the Continue reading
The Parish Council has had confirmation that the Didcot Plus Solar Streets scheme is now accepting new enquiries. Current installation dates are from March 2023 onwards, due to the existing workload that needs to be worked through.
Interested residents should email info@iddea.co.uk with their contact details and full address, putting ‘Didcot Plus SSP enquiry’ as the subject (SSP stands for Solar Streets Project). Continue reading
Two new village greens have been created at Dorchester on Thames and Little Wittenham.
The greens, at the historic Dyke Hills, a scheduled Iron Age settlement, and at Day’s Lock Meadow beside the River Thames, have been voluntarily registered by a beneficent landowner, Keith Ives. Continue reading
Going Forward Buses, the company that runs the Mondays and Wednesdays bus service between Long Wittenham and Didcot, has announced that from Monday 28th November, there will be an additional afternoon journey to Didcot and back.
See the revised timetable on the Going Forward Buses website.
