Bampton, additionally called Bampton-in-the-Bush, is a settlement and also civil parish in the Thames Valley concerning 4 1/2 miles (7 kilometres) southwest of Witney in Oxfordshire. The parish consists of the hamlet of Weald. The 2011 Census recorded the church's population as 2,564. Bampton is otherwise described as both a community as well as a village. The Domesday Book recorded that it was a market community by 1086. It proceeded thus till the 1890s. It has both a city center and also a town hall. Bampton has a custom of Morris dancing which may be 600 years of ages. Documentary and inconclusive evidence reveal that Morris dancing in Bampton returns a minimum of to the 1790s. It made use of to be executed in Bampton on Whit Monday however the date has actually just recently changed to the late May bank holiday. The community is also the house of Bampton Classical Opera which does both in Bampton and also in other places. In Bampton the location is the yard of the Deanery, a private house near St Mary's church. The Society for the Preservation of Ancient Junketing (Spajers) arranges the Bampton Shirt Race around the village on the late May Bank Holiday annually, commemorating the 14 bars that used to be open. Runners, initially dressed in night-gowns in pairs, with one pressing one more in a trolley, quit at your homes that are or were bars as well as consume alcohol a procedure of beer before running to the next.