Taplow

Taplow

The mock-medieval parish church built in 1911.

Berry Hill, part of the developed traditional core
Taplow
 Taplow shown within Buckinghamshire
Area  11.22 km2 (4.33 sq mi)
Population 1,669 (2011 census)[1]
   – density  149/km2 (390/sq mi)
OS grid referenceSU9182
Civil parishTaplow
DistrictSouth Bucks
Shire countyBuckinghamshire
RegionSouth East
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town MAIDENHEAD
Postcode district SL6
Dialling code 01628
Police Thames Valley
Fire Buckinghamshire
Ambulance South Central
EU Parliament South East England
UK ParliamentBeaconsfield
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Coordinates: 51°31′52″N 0°41′13″W / 51.531°N 0.687°W / 51.531; -0.687

Taplow is a village and civil parish in the South Bucks district of Buckinghamshire, England. It sits on the left bank of the River Thames, facing Maidenhead in the neighbouring county of Berkshire, and is roughly 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Burnham and 25 miles (40 km) west of Charing Cross in London.

Taplow railway station is near the A4 south of the settled part of the village and provides access to and from Oxford, Reading and London Paddington.

There are two conservation areas in the parish: the Taplow Village Conservation Area[2] and the Taplow Riverside Conservation Area.[3]

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.[4][5]

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.[6][7]

William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough lived at Taplow Court.[8] 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, Broomfiled, 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 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 in the seven years of the Black Death (plague).[9]

Demography

Taplow compared
2001 UK CensusTaplow wardSouth Bucks boroughEngland
Population1,58461,94549,138,831
Foreign born14.9%12.2%9.2%
White96.1%93.4%90.9%
Asian2.3%4.5%4.6%
Black0.0%0.4%2.3%
Christian73.4%75.6%71.7%
Muslim0.4%1.1%3.1%
Hindu0.8%1.2%1.16
No religion17.1%12.5%14.6%
Unemployed1.3%1.9%3.3%
Retired12.7%14.8%13.5%

At the 2001 UK census, the Taplow electoral ward had a population of 1,584. The ethnicity was 96.1% white, 1% mixed race, 2.3% Asian, 0% black and 0.6% 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 73.4% Christian, 0.9% Buddhist, 0.8% Hindu, 0.8% Sikh, 0.3% Jewish, and 0.4% Muslim. 17.1% were recorded as having no religion, 0% had an alternative religion and 6.4% did not state their religion.[10]

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.[10]

 2011 Published Statistics: Population, home ownership and extracts from Physical Environment, surveyed in 2005[1]
Output areaHomes owned outrightOwned with a loanSocially rentedPrivately rentedOtherkm² roadskm² waterkm² domestic gardenskm² domestic buildingskm² non-domestic buildingsUsual residents km²
Civil parish353 244 28 139 19 0.258 0.494 0.421 0.087 0.086 1669 11.22

References

  1. 1 2 Key Statistics: Dwellings; Quick Statistics: Population Density; Physical Environment: Land Use Survey 2005
  2. ↑ "Taplow Village Conservation Area" (PDF). South Bucks District Council. June 2008. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
  3. ↑ "Taplow Riverside Conservation Area" (PDF). South Bucks District Council. October 2007. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
  4. ↑ "South Lodge Pit citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
  5. ↑ "Map of South Lodge Pit". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
  6. ↑ Bucks Archeological Service Historic Environment Resource Assessment
  7. ↑ Hart, Jonothan; Mc Sloy, E. R. (2011). "A Late Prehistoric Hilltop Settlement and OOther Excavations Along the Taplow and Dorney Water Pipeline". Records of Buckinghamshire. Buckinghamshire Archeological Society. 51.
  8. ↑ Christopher Winn, I Never Knew That About the River Thames (Random House, 2010) ISBN 0-09-193357-9 p.138
  9. ↑ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1309135)". National Heritage List for England.
  10. 1 2 "Neighbourhood Statistics". Statistics.gov.uk. Retrieved 20 April 2008.
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