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Bampton in Devon County England History and GeographyBAMPTON, a market town and parish in the hundred of BAMPTON, county of DEVON, 21 miles (N. by E.) from Exeter, and 162 (W. by S.) from London, containing 1633 inhabitants. Bampton is supposed by Bishop Gibson to have been the Beam dune of the Saxon Chronicle, where, in 614, the Britons were defeated with great slaughter by Cynegils, King of the West Saxons: other antiquaries, referring this event to Bindon in Dorset, derive its names Batherm-town and Bathrumpton from the river Batherm, which flows into the Exe, about three quarters of a mile below the town, whence, by contraction, its present appellation is obtained. The town is pleasantly situated in a vale watered by the river; the houses, irregularly built, are of stone, and the inhabitants are amply supplied with water. The principal branch of manufacture is that of serge: the market days are Wednesday and Saturday; and the fairs are held on Whit Tuesday, the Wednesday before Lady Day, the last Thursday in October, and the first Tuesday in November; at the two last a great number of sheep is sold, which, from the excellence of the pastures, are remarkable for size and flavour. The town is within the jurisdiction of the county magistrates: two portreeves, two constables, and other officers, are chosen annually by the householders. The living is a discharged vicarage, with Pilton, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £21. 11., and endowed with £400 private benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and £400 parliamentary grant. J. Wood, Esq. and others were patrons in 1785. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is a spacious structure in the early style of English architecture, containing several monuments to the Earls of Bath. At Pilton, four miles distant from the church, there is a chapel, in which divine service is performed once a month. There are places of worship for Baptists and Independents. A chalybeate spring, strongly impregnated with iron, rises near the town. The site of an ancient castle, erected in 1336, by a member of the family of Cogan, is still disccrnible. John de Bampton, a Carmelite, and the first who read Aristotle publicly at Cambridge, was a native of this town. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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