Bampton
Bampton, likewise called Bampton-in-the-Bush, is a settlement as well as civil parish in the Thames Valley concerning 4 1/2 miles (7 kilometres) southwest of Witney in Oxfordshire. The church 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 and a village. The Domesday Book recorded that it was a market town by 1086. It continued as such up until the 1890s. It has both a town hall as well as a village hall. Bampton has a practice of Morris dance which may be 600 years old. Documentary and circumstantial evidence show that Morris dancing in Bampton returns at least to the 1790s. It used to be executed in Bampton on Whit Monday however the day has lately altered to the late May bank holiday. The town is also the residence of Bampton Classical Opera which executes both in Bampton and also elsewhere. In Bampton the location is the yard of the Deanery, an exclusive house near St Mary's church. The Society for the Preservation of Ancient Junketing (Spajers) arranges the Bampton T-shirt Race around the town on the late Might Bank Holiday annually, commemorating the 14 pubs that made use of to be open. Runners, originally dressed in night-gowns in sets, with one pushing one more in a cart, stop at your houses that are or were clubs as well as drink a procedure of beer prior to going to the next.
