Bainton is a hamlet comprising a cluster of farms in the civil parish of Stoke Lyne, about 3 miles (5 km) north of the centre of Bicester.

[1] The Domesday Book records that in 1086 Ghilo de Picquigny held the manor of Bainton.

[1] In 1613 Edward Ewer of Bucknell sold the manor to Sir William Cope, 2nd Baronet of Hanwell for £5,300.

[1] In 1783 John Warde, founder and first Master of the Bicester Hunt,[2] was using it as a hunting-box, Joseph Bullock of Caversfield had bought the manor and the two men together built stables and kennels there.

[1] 330 yards (300 m) northwest of the hamlet an obelisk marks the grave of a favourite foxhound.