Bampton Family History
Bampton Name Meaning
from one or more of the places so called such as Bampton (Oxon Devon Westm) Kirkbampton (Cumb) and Bempton (ER Yorks). With the exception of that in Devon the place-names are from Old English bēam ‘beam tree’ + tūn ‘farm village’; the Devon name is from Bæðhǣma tūn ‘farm or village of the dwellers by a bath (?spring)’ or ‘of people from Bath’.
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016