The map was produced in 1921. The first map is has been reused to show where council houses were to be built on the south side of New Road and where the sewerage pipes were to be laid to the sewerage works along the Buckland Road.

Mains sewerage came to Bampton in 1958 after a long struggle and at a cost of £105,000. Miss Marjorie Pollard was the driving force but in the end, it was the death of Horace Morse who emptied the 'night soil' buckets twice a week which made it imperative. Jack Bellinger was the first manager of the sewerage works.

These photographs, all taken by Bob West at the Spring Bank Holiday day of Morris Dancing 2000. All but the last two are Tony Daniels' morris side, (now at 2020 under Craig Godwin). The next to last picture is of Sherbourne Morris and the last picture is Eynsham Morris, both guests of the local side.

Francis Shergold's side, the Bampton Traditional Morris Men on Spring Bank Holiday. Craig Godwin and Jamie Wheeler got their tankards for 25 years of dancing with the side, presented at Weald Manor.
This was the last year Rod Stradling was one of the musicians with the side.

A photograph of Reg Hall playing the fiddle in 1970

These pictures were taken by Bob West during the May Bank holiday weekend 1997. People in the pictures include Ann and Francis Shergold, Reg Hall, Craig Godwin, Jamie Blackwell and other members of the Francis Shergold side.

The Beam publication was produce 3 and sometimes 4 times a year. This edition from December 1992 contains the following articles and advertisers.
Homelessness
Bampton Schools
The Library
Letters
McKenzie & Brown - Plumbing & Electrical
Bampton Fax Bureau
Stephen Hailes Plumbing
MH Thomas - Building, Landscape Gardening and Fencing Contractor
Bubbles - Dog Grooming
Paul van Aardt - Chiropodist
J Temple - Hardware, DIY, Fancy Goods and Toys
Bampton Driving School
The Misses Pombroy’s Establishment for Young Ladies
CBL Electric Vehicles Ltd
Bampton Badminton Club
Mother’s Union
Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund
The MS Society
The Pumpkin Club
SPAJERS
National Blood Transfusion Service
Royal British Legion
Bampton Boys Football Club
Traffic Speed
Constable Steve Patrick - Community Policeman
Prize Crossword
R Coopers - Builder
The Talbot Hotel
Curtain Choice
Andrew Bowman
Health Matters
J Godfrey & Son - Funeral Directors
Martin Drew - Chiropodist
Windfall Apples
The West Oxfordshire Observer
Land Adjoining the Bampton Youth Centre
A Simmonds - Baker
E Taylor - Funeral Directors
Grey Gables Garage
N Woodley Building Maintenance
A Fisket-a-Tasket - Flower Designs
John King - Plumber
Diary of events
The Romany Inn

This map shows the Bampton Estates at 1789. This is before the fields were enclosed and the names of the people who farmed the strips or the name of the field area are on the map. The Quies fields are each side of the Bampton to Brize Norton road, just north of what is now Hobbs Buildings.
The Clanfield to Bampton road is showing top to bottom on the map whereas it really runs east west, so you need to get your head around that, literally.
What we now call Welcome Way is called Wiltham Way - it runs south from Cowleaze Corner into Weald.
Weald Common Meadow was south of what we now think of as the area containing the two Bampton Business Parks.
The Bampton to Buckland road is showing going left to right on the map when it actually runs NW to SE; it had a turnpike.

This ticket for a tea was found in a pile of bits and pieces when clearing out a garage. Teas were sold to raise funds for the Bampton Horticultural Society. The cost was 6 pence in old money - 6d - so pre decimalisation of February 1971.

The Bampton Beam publication was produce 3 and sometime 4 times a year. This edition from August 1993 contained the following articles and advertisers.
The August Fair
The Charter to Hold a Fair
CBL Electric Vehicles
Bampton Horse Fair
The Bampton Festival
Letters to the Editor
Flower Garlands May 1993
McKenzie Brown - Plumbing Electrical
Bampton Fax Bureau
The Romany Inn
Quality Secretarial Service
Bubbles - Dog Grooming
Corner Cottage Services - Typing/Amin
Janice Radley - Chiropodist
J Temple - Hardware, DIY, Fancy Goods and Toys
Bampton Driving School
Just when did Morris dancing begin
Small medieval houses in Bampton
Bampton Horticultural Society
Gardening
Local Profiles - Hilda Kent, Margaret Howes
Curtain Choice
Andrew Bowman - Master Thatcher
Health Matters
J Godfrey - Funeral Directors
Wendy Ellison - Massage
SPAJERS
Bampton Pre-school Playgroup
The Children’s Society
Oxford College of Further Education
Oxfordshire Animal Sanctuary
Mother’s Union
Badminton
Bampton Youth Centre
Batricar - Dawn Mansfield
Bampton Environmental Watch Group
Bampton Village Hall
Step Aerobics
The MS Society
Bampton Cricket Club
Fun Aerobics Class
Paul Lappin - Decorator
Arts Page
Summer Opera & Organ Surprise
Oxford Stage Company
Pericles and The Comedy or Errors
The Talbot Hotel
MH Thomas - Building, Landscape Gardening and Fencing Contractor
The Appliance Doctor
Marks Kitchen
Post Office
Affordable rented housing
New road playground
Patient Charter
Centre for Complementary Medicine
A Fisket-a-Tasket - Flower Designs
Proze Crossword
R Cooper - Builder
Road Safety
School Children
A Simmonds = Baker
E Taylor - Funeral Directors
Grey Gables Garage
N Woodley Building Maintenance
The Complete Engraver Ltd
Diary of Events
Bampton Directory

These three maps are all labelled as 2nd edition 1899. They cover the area Central Bampton, north & south, east nearly to Aston, Black Bourton south to Cowleaze Corner, east to Elephant & Castle in Bridge Street and Mt Owen Rd, west to road going up to Lew now called Station Road.
They not only show the buildings but someone has written on in pencil when certain plots were sold and to whom.
Interesting to see the clear fish-farming area with the Deanery then called Deanery Farm, Cobb House simply called Vicarage, Churchgate House called Trinity Vicarage. The third vicarage is today called Kilmore House and is almost opposite the East window of St. Mary's.
What today is called Bridge Street was then called Mill Street and the mill was just to the left of path to Sandford Field from Bridge St. The legend is the mill wheel was buried in the plot to the left of the brook walking to the field from Bridge St and the tree there today was planted at its centre.