Bampton
Bampton, also 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 parish includes the district of Weald. The 2011 Census recorded the parish'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 town by 1086. It continued because of this up until the 1890s. It has both a city center and a village hall. Bampton has a custom of Morris dancing which may be 600 years of ages. Documentary and inconclusive evidence show that Morris dance in Bampton returns at the very least to the 1790s. It used to be executed in Bampton on Whit Monday but the date has lately changed to the late May bank holiday. The town is additionally the residence of Bampton Classical Opera which executes both in Bampton as well as elsewhere. 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 Tee shirt Race around the village on the late May Bank Holiday every year, celebrating the 14 pubs that used to be open. Runners, initially worn night-gowns in pairs, with one pressing one more in a trolley, quit at your homes that are or were clubs and also consume alcohol a measure of beer before running to the next.
