Bampton, Devon, England Genealogy: Difference between revisions

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BAMPTON (St. Michael), a market-town and'''''parish''''', in the union of Tiverton, hundred of Bampton, Collumpton and N. divisions of Devon, 21 miles (N. by E.) from Exeter, and 162 (W. by S.) from London. Bampton is supposed by Bishop Gibson to have been the Beamdune of the Saxon Chronicle, where, in 614, the Britons were defeated with great slaughter by Cynegils, King of the West Saxons. The church is a spacious structure in the early English style, containing several monuments to the earls of Bath. At Petton, four miles distant from the church, is a chapel, in which divine service is performed every Sunday. There is a place of worship for Particular Baptists. The site of an ancient castle erected in 1336, by a member of the family of Cogan, is still discernible on a mount. John de Bampton, a Carmelite monk, and the first who read Aristotle publicly at Cambridge, was a native of the town.<ref>Lewis Samuel A., [[ http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50776|''A Topographical Dictionary of England'']] (1848), pp. 136-141. Date accessed: 18 July 2012.</ref>