On her 103rd Birthday, 26th Feb 2025, Joyce Anderson donated this small red book to the Bampton Community Archive. The book is entitled "Oxfordshire" written by F.G. Brabant, M.A. Illustrated by Edmund H. New. First published May 1906.
This is the third edition – published 1919.
These pdfs are excerpts about Bampton in the book, and the book itself is available in our locked cupboard at the Archive should anyone want to view for reference.

Photographs of Bampton Castle, now called Ham Court taken by Henry Taint in 1890

9244 Bampton castle Interior (Gatehouse Ham Court) 1890
9246 Bampton Castle from East Ham Court 1890
9247 Bampton Castle from West Ham Court 1890

Selection of Photographs
BA5EDB This is a 14th century hooded fireplace in Ham Court in the room called the solar. Seen
here is 1946. It is a small room in the large farmhouse and would soon have been made warm with
the fire, ideal for warming up after a day's hunting in the cold.
BA676F An old drawing of Ham Court, sometime referred to as Bampton Castle. In the 1870s the
turret walling was restored and an addition put on the south side of the building. The old building
seen in this picture was once the west gate house to the castle. The archway has been filled in on
both sides to make a fully enclosed farmhouse.
BA80E7 This is the east side of what was the western gatehouse of Bampton Castle. The archway
was originally open on both sides of the gatehouse to allow carriages to come and go.
BA9E81 Ham Court farmhouse, originally the western gatehouse of Bampton Castle.
BA05A2 This boss is in the middle of one of the two rooms on the first floor of Ham Court which are
directly above what was once the passageway through the gatehouse in the west wall of the castle.
BAC569 This is the western aspect of the west gatehouse of Bampton Castle, which is now Ham
Court Farm.
Internal door in Ham Court

Copy of the 2016 Dance Programme for the day and listing the visiting teams for the evening. Starting at 8.30 at the old playing field New Road and finishing with Street Dancing. Squire is Craig Godwin
Bushey House
Grey Barn
Blackthorn Cottage
The Horseshoe
Westbrook House
Weald Manor
Ham Court
Mill Green
Sandfords
Kilmore House
Churchgate House
The Deanery
Cobb Housae
The Romany
The Talbot
Lavender Place Flats
Bampton House
Grayshot House
Morris Clown
Gothurst

Map of circular walk around Bampton which goes through Plantation and around Ham Court to Clanfield Road
names old fields and meadows i.e. Ham Field, Long Hedge Furlong, Turf Close, Shill Brook, Peeks Ham Close, Norloin's Furlon,
High Moor Meadow, Hilly Leaze

3 Large ordnance Survey Maps used by Hadgood and Mammatt Auctioneers and Estate Agents from Witney. Published in 1921 price £5/- and £6/8d. Points of interest are Highmoor Brook, Plantation, Ham Court, Deanery Farm, Churchgate, Vicarage, Manor House, and Weald Manor House, old gravel pit and Beam Cottage, Calais Farm, Primrose Cottages, Fisher's Bridge

Images of Ham Court, Weald supplied by Andrew Hilditch 1988
taken from Clanfield Road and showing what is left of the Bampton Castle remains

Leaflet showing public footpaths in and around Bampton created in 2003 based on a series of maps created by BEWG (Bampton Environmental Watch Group).

Maps and drawings by Jo Lewington, Gilly Marsh and Janet Westman.

Ham Court just seen over the hedge by the main road, 1988