Display Boards used to exhibit the restoration of the Old Grammar School. These boards explain the restoration of the Old Grammar School built in the mid 1650s with a legacy of Robert Vesey, as a school to educate the children of Bampton. The Old Grammar School has been in some kind of trust for the village for 370 years. The current trust called the Bampton Exhibition Foundation (“BEF”), was set up in 1906 after the school had officially passed into the hands of the Government Education Department. Bampton Community Archive wanted to secure the future of the building for another 300 years, and give a formal home for the foreseeable future and continue the job of creating and maintaining an historical record of Bampton and surrounding villages. Thanks to lots of hard work and generous support from the landlords (Bampton Exhibition Foundation), WODC, OCC, all our visitors and the benefit of the ‘Downton Abbey’ connection helped to raise sufficient funds to undertake the long-planned improvements to the interior of the Old Grammar School. The building reopened in May 2022. Downstairs Library and Vesey Room with its exhibition space and shop and upstairs a spectacular space which had not been accessible since 1961.

73 photos of Downton Abbey filming in Bampton on a bitterly cold day on March 29th 2015 (PDF)

6 Posters in the church noticeboard used by Downton Abbey (PDF)

12 photos of Downton Abbey filming in Bampton for a 5th year August 11th 2014 (PDF)

21 photos of Douglas Clare & wife Doreen as extras 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 & 2015. Dates on photos (PDF)

12 photos of Downton Abbey Extras from Bampton (PDF)

185 Photographs of some of the outside filming of the series showing Film crew and actors working whilst making the second film

Article in Witney Gazette by Miranda Norris about second movie of Downton Abbey being Good news for Bampton.
All the original cast Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern, Maggie Smith, Michelle Dockery, Jim Carter, Brendan Coyle and Joanne Froggatt appeared in the 2019 movie and are back for the sequel.Hugh Dancy, Laura Haddock, Nathalie Baye and Dominic West have also joined the cast,

Newspaper cutting by Miranda Norris, about the filming of Downton Abbey in Bampton and the unwanted attention that Mark MacArthur Christie has received by tourists looking into his windows and taking photographs.

April 5Th 2017. Rumours Of Downton Movie Fly