Bampton
Bampton, also called Bampton-in-the-Bush, is a settlement and civil parish in the Thames Valley regarding 4 1/2 miles (7 km) southwest of Witney in Oxfordshire. The parish consists of the district of Weald. The 2011 Census recorded the church's population as 2,564. Bampton is variously described as both a community and a village. The Domesday Book recorded that it was a market community by 1086. It proceeded thus up until the 1890s. It has both a town hall and a village hall. Bampton has a tradition of Morris dancing which might be 600 years old. Documentary as well as circumstantial evidence show that Morris dance in Bampton goes back a minimum of to the 1790s. It used to be executed in Bampton on Whit Monday but the day has actually lately changed to the late May bank holiday. The community is likewise the home of Bampton Classical Opera which performs both in Bampton and also in other places. In Bampton the place is the garden of the Deanery, an exclusive home near St Mary's church. The Society for the Preservation of Ancient Junketing (Spajers) arranges the Bampton Shirt Race around the town on the late May Bank Holiday every year, commemorating the 14 clubs that used to be open. Runners, originally dressed in night-gowns in pairs, with one pressing an additional in a cart, quit at your houses that are or were clubs and also drink a step of beer before running to the following.