Bampton, likewise called Bampton-in-the-Bush, is a settlement and also civil parish in the Thames Valley about 4 1/2 miles (7 km) southwest of Witney in Oxfordshire. The church includes the community of Weald. The 2011 Census recorded the church's population as 2,564. Bampton is otherwise described as both a community and also a town. The Domesday Book recorded that it was a market community by 1086. It continued thus till the 1890s. It has both a city center as well as a town hall. Bampton has a tradition of Morris dancing which might be 600 years old. Documentary and also circumstantial evidence reveal that Morris dance in Bampton goes back at the very least to the 1790s. It used to be carried out in Bampton on Whit Monday however the day has actually recently changed to the late May bank holiday. The community is additionally the home of Bampton Classical Opera which does both in Bampton and somewhere else. In Bampton the location is the garden of the Deanery, a personal home near St Mary's church. The Society for the Preservation of Ancient Junketing (Spajers) arranges the Bampton T-shirt Race around the village on the late May Bank Holiday annually, celebrating the 14 bars that made use of to be open. Runners, initially dressed in night-gowns in sets, with one pushing an additional in a cart, stop at the houses that are or were clubs and drink a measure of beer prior to running to the following.