Bampton Heritage Centre

In Medieval England, miracle plays used to be performed by people young and old in towns and villages all over the country and taken around on a cart. Here in Bampton, in conjunction with our school, we have produced Benjamin Britten's wonderful setting of Noah's Flood, not on a cart but in our church. It was a big project involving lots of people - help with staging, set-building, lighting, and costumes, as well as singers and string, brass, woodwind, or percussion players. A number of young...

EARLY RECORDS The following is a list of the manors and farms in Bampton parish with their early spellings, the date when they first appeared in print, and where known, the derivation of the name. It is not an exhaustive list as many farms simply did not appear in print in early years. Bampton: Badentone (1084), Badentona, Baentona (1086), Badentuna (1090), Bahentona (1120), Bathentona, Banton (1156), Baenton (1176), Benton (1183), Baunton (1221), Baunptone (1274), Bamton (1253), Bauton...

The comprehensive survey of all the graves in the churchyard is available in alphabetical order. You can select the appropriate page by clicking on the letters above - they download as PDF files. You can check the location with the churchyard plan below. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W XYZ Index, Key and Notes: The list on this website gives details of those interred in the churchyard and is the result of many years' painstaking work. Whilst some of the gravestones have been...