The Bampton Archive

The Bampton Community Archive was founded in 2002 to record, preserve and share the social history of this unique village in Oxfordshire.

Street party, Glebelands, on the occasion of Charles and Diana's wedding in 1981
Street party, Glebelands, on the occasion of Charles and Diana's wedding in 1981
Flooding outside the Elephant & Castle, May 1932
Flooding outside the Elephant & Castle, May 1932
Cromwell House and petrol pumps
Cromwell House and petrol pumps
Church View without cars or footpath
Church View without cars or footpath
Bill Mathews and George Dutton outside the shop
Bill Mathews and George Dutton outside the shop
Cromwell House and petrol pumps
Cromwell House and petrol pumps
A hunt meet outside The Talbot
A hunt meet outside The Talbot
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The Old Grammar School in Bampton, Oxfordshire
The Old Grammar School in Bampton, Oxfordshire was built in 1653 by Robert Vesey

The archive database contains thousands of items relating to life in the village past and present.These include photographs, documents, newspaper cuttings, sound and video files and much more. Each item in the archive 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.

Each item in the archive has been carefully recorded, categorised, described and tagged, and you can browse and search the entire catalogue.

VISIT THE ARCHIVE DATABASE

If you have any items that could be aded to our growing collection, please get in touch – we’d love to hear from you!

The Bampton Community Archive is a registered charity, number 1097295.

For more information about the village of Bampton and the activities going on there, visit the Bampton Beam, the quarterly community magazine.