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Bampton
Bampton, also called Bampton-in-the-Bush, is a settlement and civil parish in the Thames Valley about 4 1/2 miles (7 km) southwest of Witney in Oxfordshire. The parish consists of the community of Weald. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 2,564. Bampton is variously referred to as both a community and a town. The Domesday Book recorded that it was a market community by 1086. It continued because of this up until the 1890s. It has both a city center and a town hall. Bampton has a tradition of Morris dancing which may be 600 years of ages. Documentary and inconclusive evidence show that Morris dance in Bampton returns a minimum of to the 1790s. It used to be done in Bampton on Whit Monday but the date has actually lately transformed to the late May bank holiday. The town is also the house of Bampton Classical Opera which carries out both in Bampton and also elsewhere. In Bampton the location is the yard of the Deanery, a personal residence near St Mary's church. The Society for the Preservation of Ancient Junketing (Spajers) organises the Bampton T shirt Race around the town on the late May Bank Holiday every year, commemorating the 14 pubs that made use of to be open. Runners, originally worn night-gowns in pairs, with one pressing another in a cart, stop at your houses that are or were bars as well as drink an action of beer prior to going to the next.