Bampton, likewise called Bampton-in-the-Bush, is a settlement as well as civil parish in the Thames Valley regarding 4 1/2 miles (7 kilometres) southwest of Witney in Oxfordshire. The church consists of the district of Weald. The 2011 Census recorded the church's population as 2,564. Bampton is otherwise referred to as both a community and also a town. The Domesday Book recorded that it was a market town by 1086. It continued as such up until the 1890s. It has both a city center as well as a village hall. Bampton has a tradition of Morris dance which may be 600 years old. Documentary and also inconclusive evidence show that Morris dance in Bampton returns a minimum of to the 1790s. It used to be performed in Bampton on Whit Monday but the day has actually lately altered to the late May national holiday. The community is additionally the residence of Bampton Classical Opera which performs both in Bampton and also elsewhere. 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 Shirt Race around the village on the late May Bank Holiday each year, commemorating the 14 pubs that made use of to be open. Runners, initially worn night-gowns in sets, with one pressing an additional in a trolley, quit at your houses that are or were bars and also consume a procedure of beer before going to the following.