Welcome to Woodcote
The latest issue of the Woodcote Correspondent is available to download here.
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.
Village of the Year
Woodcote was awarded the title of Oxfordshire Village of the Year in 2008.
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
Parish Council Chairman
After many years of
excellent service first as a Parish Councillor then as the Parish Council
Chairman, Fiona Preston resigned at the Annual Council Meeting on May 5th
2010. Invited guests, together with Fiona's husband and son were present at
the meeting to wish Fiona well, Councillor Peter Tyler gave a short speech
in recognition and thanks to Fiona for all of her work and efforts on behalf
of the Parish. A presentation of flowers and a gift was made by the
Councillors.
Parish Councillor Mrs Maureen Edmonds has been elected as the new Parish Council Chairman.
Parish Council Meetings - Public Welcome
Members of the public are welcome to attend Parish Council meetings. The agenda for the next Parish Council meeting
and minutes from previous meetings are available online here.
Council Email Address
Please note
that the email address for the Parish Council has recently changed to
pc@woodcote-online.co.uk.
New Village Hall Manager
Mrs Vanessa Lynch, who has been the Village Hall Booking Clerk for the past six years, has been
appointed as the Woodcote Village Hall Manager. Vanessa will take up her post on
16th August 2010 and until then Sam Peates will cover for her.
The Folly/Olga Mowforth House
Update 5th July 2010
‘The decision notice has
not yet been issued for the development as the Legal Agreements have not yet
been fully completed. The Agreements should be completed soon and then
planning permission should be formally granted.’
Tom Wyatt, Principal Planning Officer, South Oxfordshire District Council
For the history of the Olga Mowforth proposals click here.
Events - full calendar here.
Fri 17 Sep 2010 - 8.00am to 2.00pm
Windmill Sale
A nearly new sale in aid of local causes. Woodcote Village Hall.
Sat 25 Sep 2010 - 10.00am to 11.30am
Swap Shop
In Woodcote Village Hall. Anyone may bring and swap but if you have nothing to swap come along anyway and take whatever you find to be useful to you.
Thu 14 Oct 2010 to Sat 16 Oct 2010
‘Laying the Ghost’ by WADS
Woodcote Amateur Dramatic Society will be performing a comedy ‘Laying the Ghost’ in the Village Hall at 7.30pm. For more details and tickets see www.woodcotedrama.co.uk.
Fri 10 Dec 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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