Taplow, Buckinghamshire

Description
Taplow, a parish, with a village, in Bucks, on the river Thames and the G.W.R., 1 mile E of Maidenhead. It has a station on the railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Maidenhead. Acreage, 1726 of land and 36 of water; population of the civil parish, 1029; of the ecclesiastical, 961. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. The manor with Taplow Court and much of the land belong to the Grenfell family. Clivedon House in this parish is noticed under a separate heading. Taplow Court is a fine mansion of red brick in the Tudor style, standing in a well-timbered park of 200 acres. There are many other good residences in the parish. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £450 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The church was built in 1828, and is a plain building of brick in the Gothic style. It contains some ancient brasses removed from the old parish church, the site of which is marked by a stone cross. A tumulus stands in the old churchyard, which was opened in 1883, and which yielded several Anglo-Saxon objects of great interest.