Taplow

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Village in Buckinghamshire, England

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::summary Village in Buckinghamshire, England ::

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FieldValue
countryEngland
coordinates
official_nameTaplow
static_image_nameTaplow church - geograph.org.uk - 60104.jpg
static_image_captionThe mock-medieval parish church
of St Nicholas, built in 1911.
static_image_2_nameTaplow village centre - geograph.org.uk - 59903.jpg
static_image_2_captionBerry Hill, part of the developed
traditional core
area_total_km211.22
population1,669
population_ref(2011 census)
os_grid_referenceSU9182
civil_parishTaplow
unitary_englandBuckinghamshire
lieutenancy_englandBuckinghamshire
regionSouth East England
constituency_westminsterBeaconsfield
post_townMAIDENHEAD
postcode_districtSL6
postcode_areaSL
dial_code01628
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|country= England |coordinates= |official_name= Taplow |static_image_name= Taplow church - geograph.org.uk - 60104.jpg |static_image_caption= The mock-medieval parish church of St Nicholas, built in 1911. |static_image_2_name= Taplow village centre - geograph.org.uk - 59903.jpg |static_image_2_caption= Berry Hill, part of the developed traditional core |area_total_km2= 11.22 |population= 1,669 |population_ref=(2011 census) |os_grid_reference= SU9182 |civil_parish= Taplow |unitary_england = Buckinghamshire |lieutenancy_england = Buckinghamshire |region= South East England |constituency_westminster= Beaconsfield |post_town= MAIDENHEAD |postcode_district= SL6 |postcode_area= SL |dial_code= 01628 Taplow is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England. It sits on the left bank of the River Thames, facing Maidenhead in the neighbouring county of Berkshire, with Cippenham and Burnham to the east. It is the south-westernmost settlement in Buckinghamshire.

The village features a Grade II listed mock-medieval church, the parish church of St Nicholas, as well as a school of the same name. Taplow railway station, on the Great Western Main Line and Elizabeth line, serves the village, with services to London Paddington, Heathrow, through Central London, Reading and Oxford. There are two conservation areas in the parish, the Taplow Village Conservation Area and the Taplow Riverside Conservation Area. Footpaths connect all parts of the parish to Maidenhead Bridge and to Burnham Beeches, a modest, hilly wood marking the start of the Chiltern Hills.

History

The village has a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest, South Lodge Pit, dating to the late Cretaceous.

The village's name is Anglo-Saxon in origin, and means Tæppa's barrow; the Anglo-Saxon burial mound of Tæppa can still be visited, and important artefacts excavated there are now in the British Museum, notably a gold belt buckle. Taplow was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Thapeslau. Taplow Court nearby is also the site of an early Iron Age hill fort and was the site of the manor house.

William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough lived at Taplow Court. Neighbouring is Cliveden, former home and parkland of Nancy Astor in the parish. Both aspects of Cliveden are today open under the National Trust scheme though part of the main building is used as a hotel for visiting dignitaries to the UK.

In 1883 a number of important Anglo-Saxon royal grave goods were discovered, reflecting similar discoveries in Prittlewell, Broomfield, and Sutton Hoo. Though the overall collection is less than that from the ship-burial in Mound 1 at Sutton Hoo, many individual objects are closely comparable and of similar quality.

The church of St Nicholas was built in 1911 but includes one of the earliest surviving brass memorials to a civilian in England, made in about 1350, which would place it during the Black Death.

Demography

::data[format=table title="Taplow compared"] | 2001 UK Census||Taplow ward||South Bucks borough||England | |---| | Population | | Foreign born | | White | | Asian | | Black | | Christian | | Muslim | | Hindu | | No religion | | Unemployed | | Retired | ::

At the 2011 UK census, the Taplow electoral ward had a population of 1,669. The ethnicity was 92.5% white, 1.0% mixed race, 5.0% Asian, 0.8% black and 0.7% other. The place of birth of residents was 85.1% United Kingdom, 1% Republic of Ireland, 4.6% other Western European countries, and 9.3% elsewhere. Religion was recorded as 64.1% Christian, 1.6% Buddhist, 0.5% Hindu, 1.6% Sikh, 0.3% Jewish, and 1.3% Muslim. 24.1% were recorded as having no religion, 0% had an alternative religion and 5.9% did not state their religion.

The economic activity of residents aged 16–74 was 46.8% in full-time employment, 8.7% in part-time employment, 16.7% self-employed, 1.3% unemployed, 0.9% students with jobs, 2.5% students without jobs, 12.7% retired, 6.2% looking after home or family, 1.7% permanently sick or disabled and 2.7% economically inactive for other reasons. The industry of employment of residents was 12.3% retail, 11.8% manufacturing, 4.5% construction, 24.6% real estate, 7.8% health and social work, 5.7% education, 9.1% transport and communications, 2.7% public administration, 6.7% hotels and restaurants, 2.7% finance, 3% agriculture and 9.1% other. Compared with national figures, the ward had a relatively high proportion of workers in agriculture and real estate. According to Office for National Statistics estimates, during the period of April 2001 to March 2002 the average gross weekly income of households was £840, compared with an average of £660 in South East England. Of the ward's residents aged 16–74, 37.2% had a higher education qualification or the equivalent, compared with 19.9% nationwide.

::data[format=table title="'''2011 Published Statistics: Population, home ownership and extracts from Physical Environment, surveyed in 2005'''"] | Output area||Homes owned outright||Owned with a loan||Socially rented||Privately rented||Other||km2 roads||km2 water||km2 domestic gardens||km2 domestic buildings||km2 non-domestic buildings||Usual residents||km2 | |---| | Civil parish | ::

Sports

The village's football club, Taplow United F.C., play in the Hellenic Football League. The village cricket club is located on the Cliveden Road and the rugby union side, Phoenix RFC, is located on Institute Road near the railway station.

Notable people

  • Pascoe Grenfell (1761–1838), businessman and politician
  • Brion Gysin (1916–1986), artist, was born in Taplow.
  • Wilfred Greatorex (1921–2002), screenwriter, script editor and television producer, lived in Taplow
  • Anthony Read (1935–2015), television producer, screenwriter, script editor and author, lived in Taplow
  • Terry Wogan (1938–2016), television and radio presenter, lived in Hitcham (Taplow)
  • Tom Dean (born 2000), swimmer and 2020 Olympic Gold medallist in 200m freestyle, lives with his family in Taplow
  • Dusty Springfield (1939–1999), singer and record producer, lived in Taplow
  • Richard Sanderson (1953– ), singer and composer
  • Andrew Wakefield (1956– ), British fraudster, former doctor, and anti-vaccine activist

References

References

  1. "Key Statistics: Dwellings; Quick Statistics: Population Density; Physical Environment: Land Use Survey 2005".
  2. {{National Heritage List for England
  3. (June 2008). "Taplow Village Conservation Area". South Bucks District Council.
  4. (October 2007). "Taplow Riverside Conservation Area". South Bucks District Council.
  5. "South Lodge Pit citation". Natural England.
  6. "Map of South Lodge Pit". Natural England.
  7. Bucks Archeological Service Historic Environment Resource Assessment
  8. (2011). "A Late Prehistoric Hilltop Settlement and Other Excavations Along the Taplow and Dorney Water Pipeline". Buckinghamshire Archeological Society.
  9. Christopher Winn, ''I Never Knew That About the River Thames'' (Random House, 2010) {{ISBN. 0-09-193357-9 p.138
  10. "Taplow 2011 Census Ward".
  11. "Neighbourhood Statistics". Office for National Statistics.
  12. "GRENFELL, Pascoe (1761-1838), of Taplow House, Bucks and 19 Charles Street, St James's, Mdx.".
  13. Purser, Phillip. (17 October 2002). "Wilfred Greatorex". The Guardian.
  14. (31 January 2016). "Taplow neighbours pay tribute to 'very friendly' Sir Terry Wogan". Belfast Telegraph.
  15. "Personal website".
  16. Lewis, Roger. (2 August 2014). "The mad, bad and sad life of Dusty Springfield". The Spectator.
  17. Deer, Brian. (2020). "[[The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Science, Deception, and the War on Vaccines]]". Johns Hopkins University Press.

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