Welcome to Woodcote
The latest issue of the Woodcote Correspondent is available to download here.
Selected photographs on this website courtesy of Alan Copeland.
Woodcote Wins ‘Oxfordshire Village of the Year 2008’
Woodcote has been awarded the prestigious title for 2008 - more details.
Welcome
‘To drive through Woodcote is to miss it. A green, a village hall, a couple of modern shops and schools are all you see. Nothing distinguished or distinguishing, certainly none of the expected Thames Valley village charm with its quota of church, pub and old cottages suitably rose strewn and picturesque.
Driving up from Whitchurch Hill each day to work it feels like ascending to a village in the clouds. With its radio mast to prove it, Woodcote is the highest point in the South Chilterns, after Nuffield, but leaves behind an impression of bungalows and open spaces and not much more. True, there is the attractive thatched barn of Church Farm overlooking the crossroads and here lies the key to the puzzle.
Woodcote is one of the Chiltern villages which unlike their Thames Valley cousins often have a common at their centre ringed around with small farms. To find the centre you have to investigate the periphery as old Woodcote is in the valleys and hollows which surround its open heart. It is a pattern of settlement laid down in very early times and little altered since, rural but not at all isolated.’
From Woodcote - Portrait of a South Chiltern Village by Vicky Jordan.
Are you new to the village ?
A free ‘Welcome Pack’ compiled by Barbara Penniall on behalf of St Leonards Church is available to all newcomers to Woodcote. The pack, which is funded by Windmill Sales, contains a wide selection of useful information and is available from the library and the health centre. More details.
Council Notices
Your Council Needs You!
Woodcote Parish Council has a vacancy for a Parish Councillor. If you would like to support your village and be co-opted as a Parish Councillor please contact the
Chairman Mrs. Fiona Preston on 01491 680508 or by email
at fionapreston@waitrose.com.
Council Email Address
Please note
that the email address for the Parish Council has recently changed to
pc@woodcote-online.co.uk.
The Folly/Olga Mowforth House
Public Meeting
Monday 30 November at 7.30 p.m. in the Village Hall.
The
Parish Council has called this meeting for public consultation following
new concerns about the proposed developments on these sites.
For details of the planning application and comments submitted to the SODC click here.
For the history of the Olga Mowforth proposals click here.
For the Woodcote Conservation Group's statement on the Folly
Garden proposals click here.
Events - full calendar here.
Thu 25 Feb 2010 - 7.30pm
Review of Recent Archaeology in South Oxfordshire
A lecture Paul Smith (Oxfordshire County Archaeologist) for South Oxfordshire Archaeological
Group. Goring Heath Parish Hall.
Visitors - £2.50; Members - Free.
Sat 27 Feb 2010 - 7.30pm to 11.45pm
The Trends at the Village Hall
The Trends are rocking again in Woodcote. Shake off those winter blues and enjoy an evening of dance to 60's music at the Village Hall.
Bar and food available. Admission £10.
Contact Dot Tyler on 01491 681403 or email Betty Thomas betty99@btinternet.com for tickets.
Fri 05 Mar 2010 - 8.00am to 2.00pm
Windmill Sale
A nearly new sale in aid of local causes. Woodcote Village Hall.
Sat 17 Apr 2010 - 7.30pm
Lions Fish Supper & Charity Race Night
The Goring, Woodcote & District Lions Club invite you to come along for a fun evening with a difference. Enjoy a special fish & chip supper and filmed horse racing with your friends at Woodcote Village Hall.
Thu 17 Jun 2010
Woodcote War Memorial Project Publication Launch
The Woodcote War Memorial Project will launch its publications in the evening in the Village Hall, 90 years to the day since the unveiling of the memorial in 1920. More details to follow.
We will be glad to receive further information about the men named on the war
memorial as some scope for editing will be possible until well into 2010.
Fri 25 Jun 2010 - 8.00am to 2.00pm
Windmill Sale
A nearly new sale in aid of local causes. Woodcote Village Hall.
Full event calendar here.
Village Hall
Chilterns Countryside
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