Brightwell-cum-Sotwell

Brightwell-cum-Sotwell is a twin-village and civil parish in the Upper Thames Valley in South Oxfordshire. It lies between Didcot to the west and the historic market town of Wallingford to the east.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wallingford Castle and Wallingford Museum.

Wallingford Castle

Castle

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Wallingford Castle is a medieval castle situated in Wallingford in the English county of Oxfordshire, adjacent to the River Thames. Established in the 11th century as a motte-and-bailey design within an Anglo-Saxon burgh, it grew to become what historian Nicholas Brooks has described as "one of the most powerful royal castles of the 12th and 13th centuries".

Wallingford Museum

Museum

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Wallingford Museum is a museum with collections of local interest in the town of Wallingford in the English county of Oxfordshire. The museum has an extensive collection relating to the town's history.

Brightwell Barrow

Peak

Photo: Bill Nicholls, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Brightwell Barrow is a Bronze Age round barrow in the civil parish of Brightwell-cum-Sotwell in the English county of Oxfordshire. It lies just under a kilometre from Wittenham Clumps.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wallingford and Didcot.

Wallingford

Photo: Sciencebloke, Public domain.

Wallingford is a market town and civil parish on the River Thames in South Oxfordshire, England, 12 miles north of Reading, 13 miles south of Oxford and 11 miles north west of Henley-on-Thames.

Didcot

Photo: Jim, CC BY 2.0.

Didcot is a town in South Oxfordshire, England. If you are a rail enthusiast, you may be interested in Didcot because it is the home of the Didcot Rail Centre.

Benson

Village

Photo: Roger Templeman, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Benson is a village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England. The 2011 Census gave the parish population as 4,754. It lies about a mile and a half north of Wallingford at the foot of the Chiltern Hills, where a chalk stream, Ewelme Brook, joins the River Thames next to Benson Lock. Benson is situated 2 miles east of Brightwell-cum-Sotwell.

Brightwell-cum-Sotwell

Type: Village
Category: locality
Location: South Oxfordshire District, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.6142° or 51° 36′ 51″ north

Longitude

-1.1587° or 1° 9′ 31″ west

Elevation

207 feet (63 metres)

Open location code

9C3WJR7R+MG

OpenStreetMap ID

node 266672299

OpenStreetMap feature

place=village

GeoNames ID

7290883

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In Other Languages

From French to Spanish—“Brightwell-cum-Sotwell” goes by many names.

French: “Brightwell-cum-Sotwell”
German: “Brightwell-cum-Sotwell”
Spanish: “Brightwell-cum-Sotwell”

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