Bampton, also called Bampton-in-the-Bush, is a settlement and civil parish in the Thames Valley about 4+1⁄2 miles (7 km) southwest of Witney in Oxfordshire.

[4] Tūn is an Old English word that originally meant a fence, and came to mean an enclosure or homestead.

[7] In 1315 King Edward II granted Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke a licence to crenellate at Bampton.

Much of the building survived until the Commonwealth of England in the 17th century, when the gatehouse and part of the curtain wall were adapted to form Ham Court.

[8] After the Norman conquest of England, William the Conqueror granted the church of St Mary the Virgin to Leofric, Bishop of Exeter.

[9] Late in the 11th or early in the 12th century the Dean and Chapter had a prebendal house built just west of the parish church.

In 1799 a new Georgian main block was added to the front of the building by the builder and architect Daniel Harris.

[14][15] In 1635 Robert Veysey, a wool merchant, died leaving £100 to build and endow a free school in Bampton.

[19] In 1861 the East Gloucestershire Railway was built through the northernmost part of the parish, about 2 miles (3 km) north of the village.

Documentary and circumstantial evidence show that Morris dancing in Bampton goes back at least to the 1790s.

It used to be performed in Bampton on Whit Monday but the date has recently changed to the late May bank holiday.

Bampton Youth Centre was founded in 1984 in the former Victorian primary school building.