Display Boards used to exhibit the restoration of the Old Grammar School. These boards explain the restoration of the Old Grammar School built in the mid 1650s with a legacy of Robert Vesey, as a school to educate the children of Bampton. The Old Grammar School has been in some kind of trust for the village for 370 years. The current trust called the Bampton Exhibition Foundation (“BEF”), was set up in 1906 after the school had officially passed into the hands of the Government Education Department. Bampton Community Archive wanted to secure the future of the building for another 300 years, and give a formal home for the foreseeable future and continue the job of creating and maintaining an historical record of Bampton and surrounding villages. Thanks to lots of hard work and generous support from the landlords (Bampton Exhibition Foundation), WODC, OCC, all our visitors and the benefit of the ‘Downton Abbey’ connection helped to raise sufficient funds to undertake the long-planned improvements to the interior of the Old Grammar School. The building reopened in May 2022. Downstairs Library and Vesey Room with its exhibition space and shop and upstairs a spectacular space which had not been accessible since 1961.

Local residents and doctors at Bampton's surgery say we can't cope with another approximately 280 home. 160 proposed along New Road and 127 in the land between the Aston and Buckland Roads.

Prospect Place For Sale (2015)

New Tours Brochure By Wodc (2014)

Launch Of Downton Blanc & Claret (2015)

Grumpy Christopher Gray Of Oxford Times Re Downton Abbey 4.10.2012

Newspaper article about Downton Fans helping to pay for high-tech hub in the Old Grammar School

Founder Of Bampton Archive Jo Lewington Hopes For Series 6 Of Downton Abbey (2014)

Final Curtain For Downton (2015)

Film Crews Return For Downton The Movie