David and Sarah Jane New invite the choir of St Mary's to a BBQ at their farm each year. David is organist and choirmaster at St Mary's. We had a lovely BBQ but had to beat a hasty retreat to the barn when the heavens opened.

Newspaper report on new trial of Airmen parachuting from C17 Aircraft. Parachutists were from Joint Aerial Delivery Test and Evaluation Unit (JADTEU), Aircraft are piloted by 99 Squadron

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

A large section of wall in Church Close fell and badly damaged at least two vehicles. The wall was eventually repaired and a new opening created where a gateway was made.

The Bampton Traditional Morris men and Bampton Morris Men May 29th 2016 plus some of the visiting teams.

Usually the hunt meets at Weald Manor on the last Monday before Christmas but weather occasionally means it has to be after Christmas which is what happened to what should have been the December 2015 meet.

There was a hunt meet at Weald Manor Monday 19th December 2016.

The Environment Agency will spend £1.2m repairing the locks on the Thames, five in Oxfordshire plus one in Berkshire, one in Buckinghamshire and one in Surrey through the winter of 2016-2017

On October 1st 2017 Oxfordshire County Council were to begin a new contact with W&S Recycling which would mean people being charged to recycle items that were free.

A second Downton Abbey film is being made and once again Saint Mary's church, Churchgate House, the Old Grammar School and the area around the church in Bampton will be used for some of the location shooting.