Bampton is a village and civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness unitary authority area of Cumbria, England, on the edge of the Lake District National Park.

Bampton Grammar school was founded in 17th century when the industrial population was comparatively large.

Depopulation reduced the necessity leading to the budgetary axe to fall on school provision.

Haweswater Beck arises as a stream discharge from Haweswater Reservoir and flows eastward, just north of Firth Woods, and then turns north to join the River Lowther between Bampton and Bampton Grange.

[4] Also within the village of Bampton is the traditional red telephone box used in the 1987 cult classic movie Withnail & I.