BAMPTON, or BAMPTON-IN-THE-BUSH, a market-town of the hundred of Bampton and county of Oxford. It stands in a flat situation near the banks of the Isis, seventy miles from London, and eighteen from Oxford. The church is a magnificent ancient edifice. The market is held on Saturday. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 1008, in 1811 to 1232, and in 1821 to 1460.