On her 103rd Birthday, 26th Feb 2025, Joyce Anderson donated this small red book to the Bampton Community Archive. The book is entitled "Oxfordshire" written by F.G. Brabant, M.A. Illustrated by Edmund H. New. First published May 1906. This is the third edition – published 1919. These pdfs are excerpts about Bampton in the book, and the book itself is available in our locked cupboard at the Archive should anyone want to view for reference.
Selection of Photographs BA5EDB This is a 14th century hooded fireplace in Ham Court in the room called the solar. Seen here is 1946. It is a small room in the large farmhouse and would soon have been made warm with the fire, ideal for warming up after a day's hunting in the cold. BA676F An old drawing of Ham Court, sometime referred to as Bampton Castle. In the 1870s the turret walling was restored and an addition put on the south side of the building. The old building seen in this picture was once the west gate house to the castle. The archway has been filled in on both sides to make a fully enclosed farmhouse. BA80E7 This is the east side of what was the western gatehouse of Bampton Castle. The archway was originally open on both sides of the gatehouse to allow carriages to come and go. BA9E81 Ham Court farmhouse, originally the western gatehouse of Bampton Castle. BA05A2 This boss is in the middle of one of the two rooms on the first floor of Ham Court which are directly above what was once the passageway through the gatehouse in the west wall of the castle. BAC569 This is the western aspect of the west gatehouse of Bampton Castle, which is now Ham Court Farm. Internal door in Ham Court
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
Map of circular walk around Bampton which goes through Plantation and around Ham Court to Clanfield Road names old fields and meadows i.e. Ham Field, Long Hedge Furlong, Turf Close, Shill Brook, Peeks Ham Close, Norloin's Furlon, High Moor Meadow, Hilly Leaze
3 Large ordnance Survey Maps used by Hadgood and Mammatt Auctioneers and Estate Agents from Witney. Published in 1921 price £5/- and £6/8d. Points of interest are Highmoor Brook, Plantation, Ham Court, Deanery Farm, Churchgate, Vicarage, Manor House, and Weald Manor House, old gravel pit and Beam Cottage, Calais Farm, Primrose Cottages, Fisher's Bridge
