Mapping Bampton: Exhibition Display Boards

BAMPTON IN IT’S LANDSCAPE Bampton is situated in a predominantly rural area of West Oxfordshire; an area characterised by agricultural enclosures, small rural settlement and minimal woodland. In a 1998 Landscape Characterisation study ‘Bampton Vale’ was identified and classified as “an area of distinctly low-lying but gently rolling clay vale between an edge of Limestone to the North and the expansive floodplain landscape which borders the River Thames to the south. The underlying clay geology is reflected in the soils and character of vegetation (oak being the dominant tree species).” Bampton 6 inch map 1884