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.
Road Closure
Kiln Lane, Woodcote will be closed for resurfacing in the week beginning 14th September 2009.
Olga Mowforth House
The Woodcote Parish Council is delighted that the battle to prevent the removal of a sheltered housing provision for the elderly in the village
appears to have been successful.
More details and news.
Events - full calendar here.
Sat 11 Jul 2009 to Sun 12 Jul 2009
The Woodcote Rally
The Woodcote Rally 2009 is over the weekend of the 11th & 12th
of July 2009 with free Friday night evening entrance on the 10th for villagers.
The location for the Rally is the same field as for 2008 rally.
Mrs Sheila Dibnah,
the widow of the late, great Fred Dibnah has recently been announced as a
VIP guest at the rally. For more details download the press release here -
rallypressrelease160409.pdf.
Fri 18 Sep 2009 - 8.00am to 2.00pm
Windmill Sale
A nearly new sale in aid of local causes. Woodcote Village Hall.
Fri 04 Dec 2009 - 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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