The Bampton Archive

Learn about the
history of Bampton

The publicly accessible archive database contains thousands of records relating to life in the village past and present.

These include photographs, documents, newspaper cuttings, sound and video files and much more. Each one of them is an important part of the telling of the story of the village: from photographs of the restoration of the church bells; to a stone age hand axe; to the history of the WWII airfields around the village; and to the documenting of the filming of Downton Abbey in Bampton.

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Learn more about about the history of Bampton