In recent years, property prices in Bampton have increased to the extent that they are now well above the national average. This advertisement is for a three bedroom house with offers invited in excess of £400,00.

A modern 4 bedroom house in The Pieces. The house in the The Pieces was built in 1973 and sold for £13,000.

This was cottage was advertised for sale in June 2024.

Old Photograph showing horse and cart with a worker, bny thatched farm buildings.
Thought to be behind Landells.

Old map Church St & Church View showing properties Vaizey Cottage, The Yews , Thatched Cottage
Inferred medieval Market Frontage Sunken Floored building Late medieval House

Newspaper cutting about Council vetoing 127 properties off the Aston Road in Bampton. Gladman Developments Limited

Article in Witney Gazette about development plans being halted because there is a possibility that the Medieval Ruins of the D'Oyley Family home are on the Site. Situated in Moonraker Lane, it was proposed to demolish Folly House and CBL Electric Vehicles Yard and build some retirement homes. Oxford Archaeological Unit, and Dr John Blair, Historian at Queens College Oxford identified the historic importance of this site.

two maps - A Plan of Lower Hadden Farm from the Auction held in March 1949, and a hand drawn map of same area
Auctioneers were Jackson-Stops (Cirencester)
With hand written field names as follows
Bampton Station Fairford to Oxford GWR
Barnleys Pasture
Big Barleys
Big Row
Black Bourton Road
Bowlie Ground
Bridle Path to Black Bourton
Bridle Road
Broad Close
Cow Leas
Far Hill
Far Limber
Front Field
Furse Hill
Harps
Highmoor Brook
Home Close
Horn Ground
James' Meadow
Little Barleys
Long Meadow
Lower Hadden Farm
Middle Hill
Mill Barn Copse
Near Barleys
Near Limber
Pike Ground
Pond Gardens
Rogers Meadow
Rushey Row
Smart Hill
The Big Monk
Water Meadows
Willow Beds

Photograph of Little Place 1905,

Copy of circular sent by Alaric Smith, Liberal Democrat Councillor for Bampton and Clanfield, re the threat of speculative development in the local community.