Horse Fair - ponies tied up on Church Green were considered by the vendors to be suitable for pit ponies and the Welsh miners knew to come to this part of Bampton to buy their pit ponies. Here, the ladies and children are inside the church wall away from the horses but able to watch the proceedings. It was an event much enjoyed by all and the ladies and children have got their best hats on.

Marion and Ted Lay lived in Bampton all their married life and as Jamie Wheeler says

"They were the loveliest people you could ever meet. I claim a slight family association as their daughter Marjorie married Jim Brooks. It was a second marriage for them both and Jim had previously been married to my Auntie Joyce. I always regarded him as my uncle. Ted was a Morris dancer years ago and we always did one dance outside his house on Whit Monday and for Mrs. Lay after Ted died. Mrs. Lay was sister of Harry Pocock whose name crops up on this site quite often. He died the day I was born (or so Mrs. Pocock used to tell me)"

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.

• Daniel Gibbard
• Hay harvest
• Horse fair, Church Green
• Goodman's Tea Dealers
• Mr & Mrs Dewe
• Mr White of Ampney Lodge & Meadow Farm
• Letter from Lucinda Leech with 5x4 inch negative of 1904

• Liz Leffman, Lib Dems
• Laetisia Carter, Labour
• Robert Courts, Conservative
• Claire Lasko, Green Party
• Alexander Craig, UKIP

Appointment card for the Parallel Lines hair and beauty/barber salon on Broad Street. As of 2022.

Letter from R. Vaughan Williams to Bernard Rose regarding a music rehearsal.

West face of the Town Hall and Eeles shop

Market Square

Lime Tree House