MODERN BAMPTON

The central core may remain largely unchanged, but outside this area the story is altogether quite different. In 1946 new residential development in Bampton has barely escaped from the historic core.

The most notable additions to the town in the first half of the 20th century were mainly limited to individual developments or direct replacements. The most significant of these perhaps being the rapid expansion of the house known as The Grange.

This house, based around the core of a rather modest 17th or 18th century farmhouse was extensively remodelled and extended in a very accomplished manner throughout the first quarter of the 20th century.