Welcome to Woodcote
Selected photographs on this website courtesy of Alan Copeland.
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.
Parish News
The Parish Plan has now been published. Copies are available to download here.
Events - full calendar here.
Tue 13 May 2008
Annual Parish Meeting
Wed 21 May 2008
Annual Meeting of the Council
Sat 14 Jun 2008 - 10.00am to 12.00pm
Woodcote Village Swap Shop
At the Village Hall.
Bring and swap, or just take:
Useable Electrical Items, New and used tools, Children's Toys, Garden
Equipment, Bicycles and push-chairs, Books, tapes and CDs, Tetrapaks,
textiles and Recycling items.
Leave Recycling items:
batteries - hearing-aid, clock, AAA, AA, C, D, PP3, light bulbs and
fluorescent tubes, spectacles, ink-jet and toner cartridges, mobile phones.
Please DO NOT bring: junk, or car batteries.
Fri 20 Jun 2008 - 8.00am to 2.00pm
Windmill Sale
A nearly new sale in aid of local causes. Woodcote Village Hall.
Sat 12 Jul 2008 to Sun 13 Jul 2008
The Woodcote Rally
The Woodcote Rally will be held over the weekend of the 12th & 13th of July 2008 with free Friday night evening entrance on the 11th for villagers.
Sat 19 Jul 2008 - 7.00pm
Don Pasquale performed by The Garden Opera Company
A St. Mary's church (Whitchurch on Thames)
fundraising event at Hardwick House.
Tickets are £27 from the box office - 0118 984 4959/2437 or Warmingham, 4 High Street, Goring and
Premier Pets, High Street, Pangbourne. Numbers are limited so pre-booking is essential.
Download flyer - Don Pasquale(Word format),
Don Pasquale(PDF format).
Full event calendar here.
Village Hall
Chilterns Countryside
This website is funded by Woodcote Parish Council. If you would like to contribute or update any part of the site please contact the webmaster - web@woodcote-online.co.uk.