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 presitgious title for 2008, taking it from the 2007 winner Steeple Aston. 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.
Parish Plan
The Parish Plan has now been published together with additional material. Copies are available to download here.
Events - full calendar here.
Mon 04 Aug 2008 - 7.00pm
Geological Ramble - Reading Geological Society
Starting Point - The Red Lion, Woodcote. SU 645 820
Free.
5-6km with unavoidable stiles and hills. A route map will be available
at the parking area. For more details ring Christine Hooper on 0118 947 1597 or
download the flyer - Summer Rambles(Word format),
Summer Rambles(PDF format).
Sun 10 Aug 2008 - 1.00pm
Family Picnics on the Village Green
In line with Woodcote being the Best Village there is an opportunity to reinforce our community spirit:
families in the village are all invited to bring a picnic onto the Village Green.
There will be a fund-raising bbq, an ice-cream van will be present, and the Red Lion has been asked
to ensure there are sufficient stocks for those who wish to have a drink.
Woodcote Cricket Club has a home game against Moreton that day.
The Green is looking wonderful and this is a great opportunity to stage an idyllic Woodcote Village
scene: the sound of a ball hitting willow, while adults and children picnic around the boundary,
with a wonderful backdrop of trees surrounding the edge of the field. Please do come along.
Sat 20 Sep 2008
Woodcote Festival
A grand event for the village, with loads of events and activities, including a horticultural display and competition.
Fri 26 Sep 2008 - 8.00am to 2.00pm
Windmill Sale
A nearly new sale in aid of local causes. Woodcote Village Hall.
Sun 12 Oct 2008 - 10.00am to 5.00pm
Annual Charity Conker Competition
It's nearly conkers time again !!!
The Annual Charity Conker Competition organised by Goring, Woodcote & District Lions Club will be held at Cross Lanes Fruit Farm, Mapledurham, near Reading RG4 7UW during their Orchard Open Day.
Fri 05 Dec 2008 - 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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