Emergency Services, Railways and Transport

To record, preserve and share the social history of this unique village in Oxfordshire.

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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; to the documenting of the filming of Downton Abbey in Bampton.

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Emergency Services, Railways and Transport

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CBL Converted milk float for carrying wine

A Milk float converted to a house refrigeration unit for carrying wine. CBL Electric Vehicles was established in Moonraker Lane, Bampton in 1978. They are specialists in electric vehicles.

Paynes horse drawn carriage at Bampton Station 1908

In 1908, Bampton Station was still part of the rural branch line connecting Oxford, Witney and Fairford. The station later became known as “Brize Norton and Bampton Station” in 1937. Horse-drawn carriages were still the normal way passengers and goods travelled between villages and railway stations in Edwardian England. Rural stations commonly had local carriers […]