BAMPTON, a market-town of Oxfordshire, situated on the river Isis, about ten miles south-west of Oxford, 1^{\circ} 35' W. long. and 51^{\circ} 40' N. lat. BAMPTON is also the name of a market-town in Devonshire, twenty miles north of Exeter, in 3^{\circ} 40' W. long. and 51^{\circ} 5' N. lat.