Bampton vestry minutes 1730-1858 / edited by Diana Bennett.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bennett, Diana (Historian), editor.

Series:

Oxfordshire Record Society (Series) ; v. 78.

Oxfordshire Record Society ; volume 78

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bampton (Oxfordshire, England)--History--Sources.

Bampton (Oxfordshire, England).

Church records and registers--England--Bampton (Oxfordshire).

Church records and registers.

Bampton (Oxfordshire, England)--Church history.

Physical Description:

xvi, 349 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxfordshire Record Society, 2025.

Summary:

"The vestry minutes transcribed in this volume open a window into the daily life and politics of one particular place in west Oxfordshire: the large and vibrant village of Bampton, with its famers, tradesmen, labourers, and resident gentry and clergy. The minutes cover a crucial period from 1730 to 1858, which saw rising levels of poverty in Bampton as elsewhere, and prompted increasingly imaginative attempts to deal with the growing issue of poor relief. In addition they touch on almost every aspect of local life, from law and order to street lighting and firefighting, and from public health to schooling and religious controversies, straddling major changes such as the enclosure of Bampton's open fields and the national introduction of the New Poor Law. Those making these decisions as vestry members included many of the ordinary people of the town, drawn from a wide cross-section of local society."--Page 4 of cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-317) and index.

ISBN:

9780902509818

0902509810

OCLC:

1544959832