Agriculture and Farming
To record, preserve and share the social history of this unique village in Oxfordshire.
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The archive preserves photographs, maps, deeds, oral histories and farm records that document the agricultural heritage of Bampton and neighbouring communities such as Aston, Weald, Lew, Chimney and Shifford.
These collections provide a valuable record of the people who worked the land, the changing rural landscape and the traditions that shaped village life for centuries.
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Bill Hudson (Frank Hudson Father)
Photograph of Bill Hudson with others on a course in 1947. He was Frank Hudson’s father. His wife, one of Dora Townsend’s sisters died when Frank was 7 weeks old and Frank was raised by his grandparents on Castle View farm so Bill could go out to work but Bill lived in Broad Street so […]
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Hay cart by Meadow Farm, Buckland Road
This is a photograph that I have recently found of my great grandfather as a boy, Edward William Portlock (Clarke) born in 1893 with his sisters Elsie and Eva Portlock outside a cottage where they lived at the time, along the Buckland Road as seen on the 1901 and 1911 census.
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