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{{Infobox UK place
|country= England
|coordinates= {{coord|51.531|-0.687|display=inline,title}}
|official_name= Taplow
|static_image_name= Taplow church - geograph.org.uk - 60104.jpg
|static_image_caption= The mock-medieval parish church<br>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<br>[[nucleated village|traditional core]]
|area_total_km2= 11.22
|population= 1,669
|population_ref=([[United Kingdom Census 2011|2011 census]])<ref name=ons>{{Cite web |url=http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/ |title=Key Statistics: Dwellings; Quick Statistics: Population Density; Physical Environment: Land Use Survey 2005 |access-date=22 April 2008 |archive-date=11 February 2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030211201309/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|os_grid_reference= SU9182
|civil_parish= Taplow
|unitary_england     = [[Buckinghamshire Council|Buckinghamshire]]
|lieutenancy_england = [[Buckinghamshire]]
|region= South East England
|constituency_westminster= [[Beaconsfield (UK Parliament constituency)|Beaconsfield]]
|post_town= MAIDENHEAD
|postcode_district= SL6
|postcode_area= SL
|dial_code= 01628
}}
'''Taplow''' is a [[village]] and [[civil parish]] in the Unitary Authority of [[Buckinghamshire]], [[England]]. It sits on the left bank of the [[River Thames]], facing [[Maidenhead]] in the neighbouring county of [[Berkshire]], with [[Cippenham]] and [[Burnham, Buckinghamshire|Burnham]] to the east. It is the south-westernmost settlement in Buckinghamshire.
The village features a [[Listed building|Grade II listed]] mock-medieval church, the parish church of St Nicholas,<ref name="historicengland">{{National Heritage List for England|num=1309135|desc=Church of St Nicholas|access-date=25 January 2015}}</ref> 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 station|London Paddington]], [[Heathrow]], through [[Central London]], [[Reading, Berkshire|Reading]] and [[Oxford]]. There are two conservation areas in the parish, the Taplow Village Conservation Area<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.taplow.org.uk/village/taplow_conservation_june_2008.pdf |title=Taplow Village Conservation Area |publisher=South Bucks District Council |date=June 2008 |access-date=4 November 2015 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304110710/http://www.taplow.org.uk/village/taplow_conservation_june_2008.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> and the Taplow Riverside Conservation Area.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.taplow.org.uk/village/taplow_riverside_conservation_october_2007.pdf |title=Taplow Riverside Conservation Area |publisher=South Bucks District Council |date=October 2007 |access-date=4 November 2015 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304045505/http://www.taplow.org.uk/village/taplow_riverside_conservation_october_2007.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> 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]].<ref name=citation>{{cite web |url=http://www.sssi.naturalengland.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1001699.pdf |title=South Lodge Pit citation |series=Sites of Special Scientific Interest |publisher=Natural England |access-date=29 February 2016 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304072345/http://www.sssi.naturalengland.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1001699.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=map>{{cite web |url=http://magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.aspx?startTopic=Designations&activelayer=sssiIndex&query=HYPERLINK%3D%271001699%27 |title=Map of South Lodge Pit |series=Sites of Special Scientific Interest |publisher=Natural England |access-date=29 February 2016 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304042437/http://magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.aspx?startTopic=Designations&activelayer=sssiIndex&query=HYPERLINK%3D%271001699%27 |url-status=live }}</ref>
The village's name is [[Old English|Anglo-Saxon]] in origin, and means Tæppa's barrow; the Anglo-Saxon [[Taplow burial|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]].<ref>Bucks Archeological Service Historic Environment Resource Assessment</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hart |first1=Jonathan |last2=Mc Sloy |first2=E. R. |year=2011 |last3=Mudd |first3=Andrew |url=http://www.bucksas.org.uk/articles11.html |title=A Late Prehistoric Hilltop Settlement and Other Excavations Along the Taplow and Dorney Water Pipeline |journal=Records of Buckinghamshire |volume=51 |publisher=Buckinghamshire Archeological Society |access-date=8 August 2018 |archive-date=9 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180809025532/http://www.bucksas.org.uk/articles11.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
[[William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough]] lived at [[Taplow Court]].<ref>Christopher Winn, ''I Never Knew That About the River Thames'' (Random House, 2010) {{ISBN|0-09-193357-9}} p.138</ref> Neighbouring is [[Cliveden]], former home and parkland of [[Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor|Nancy Astor]] in the parish.  Both aspects of Cliveden are today open under the [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|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-Saxons|Anglo-Saxon]] royal grave goods were discovered, reflecting similar discoveries in [[Prittlewell]], [[Broomfield, Essex|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.{{CN|date=October 2016}}
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]].<ref name="historicengland"/>
== Demography ==
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!colspan="4"|'''Taplow compared'''
|-
|'''2001 UK Census'''||'''Taplow ward'''||'''South Bucks borough'''||'''England'''
|-
|Population||1,584||61,945||49,138,831
|-
|Foreign born||14.9%||12.2%||9.2%
|-
|White||96.1%||93.4%||90.9%
|-
|Asian||2.3%||4.5%||4.6%
|-
|Black||0.0%||0.4%||2.3%
|-
|Christian||73.4%||75.6%||71.7%
|-
|Muslim||0.4%||1.1%||3.1%
|-
|Hindu||0.8%||1.2%||1.16
|-
|No religion||17.1%||12.5%||14.6%
|-
|Unemployed||1.3%||1.9%||3.3%
|-
|Retired||12.7%||14.8%||13.5%
|}
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.<ref>{{NOMIS2011|id=1237322176|title=Taplow 2011 Census Ward|access-date=18 February 2018}}</ref>
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.<ref name=Stat>{{cite web |title=Neighbourhood Statistics |url=http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadAreaSearch.do?a=3&i=1001&m=0&s=1208862463765&enc=1&areaSearchText=Taplow&areaSearchType=14&extendedList=false&searchAreas=Search |publisher=Office for National Statistics |access-date=20 April 2008 |archive-date=25 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525222439/http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadAreaSearch.do?a=3&i=1001&m=0&s=1208862463765&enc=1&areaSearchText=Taplow&areaSearchType=14&extendedList=false&searchAreas=Search |url-status=live }}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
|+ '''2011 Published Statistics: Population, home ownership and extracts from Physical Environment, surveyed in 2005<ref name=ons />'''
|-
!Output area||Homes owned outright||Owned with a loan||Socially rented||Privately rented||Other||km<sup>2</sup> roads||km<sup>2</sup> water||km<sup>2</sup> domestic gardens||km<sup>2</sup> domestic buildings||km<sup>2</sup> non-domestic buildings||Usual residents||km<sup>2</sup>
|- align=center
|Civil parish||353||244||28||139||19||0.258||0.494||0.421||0.087||0.086||1669||11.22
|}
==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==
*[[Thomas Dean (swimmer)|Tom Dean]] (born 2000), swimmer and 2020 Olympic Gold medallist in 200m freestyle, lives with his family in Taplow<ref>{{cite web |title=Personal website |url=https://www.tomdean.online/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210727181045/https://www.tomdean.online/ |archive-date=27 July 2021 |access-date=27 July 2021}}</ref>
*[[Richard Sanderson]] (born 1953), singer and composer{{Citation needed|date=February 2024}}
* [[Wilfred Greatorex]] (1921–2002), screenwriter, script editor and television producer, lived in Taplow<ref name="purser">{{cite web| url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2002/oct/17/broadcasting.guardianobituaries| title=Wilfred Greatorex| first=Phillip| last=Purser| work=The Guardian| date=17 October 2002| access-date=3 April 2021| archive-date=22 April 2021| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422212115/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2002/oct/17/broadcasting.guardianobituaries| url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Pascoe Grenfell]] (1761–1838), businessman and politician<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/grenfell-pascoe-1761-1838|website=History of Parliament Online|title=GRENFELL, Pascoe (1761-1838), of Taplow House, Bucks and 19 Charles Street, St James's, Mdx.|access-date=2022-10-01|archive-date=5 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210805011956/https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/grenfell-pascoe-1761-1838|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Anthony Read]] (1935–2015), television producer, screenwriter, script editor and author, lived in Taplow<ref name="purser" />
* [[Dusty Springfield]] (1939–99), singer and record producer, lived in Taplow<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-mad-bad-and-sad-life-of-dusty-springfield| title=The mad, bad and sad life of Dusty Springfield| first=Roger| last=Lewis| work=The Spectator| date=2 August 2014| access-date=3 April 2021| archive-date=14 April 2021| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414161526/https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-mad-bad-and-sad-life-of-dusty-springfield| url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Andrew Wakefield]], British fraudster, former doctor, and anti-vaccine activist<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Deer |first=Brian |title=[[The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Science, Deception, and the War on Vaccines]] |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |year=2020 |isbn=978-1-42143-800-9 |location=Baltimore, MD |page=15}}</ref>
* [[Terry Wogan]] (1938–2016), television and radio presenter, lived in Hitcham (Taplow)<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/taplow-neighbours-pay-tribute-to-very-friendly-sir-terry-wogan-34411563.html| title=Taplow neighbours pay tribute to 'very friendly' Sir Terry Wogan| work=Belfast Telegraph| date=31 January 2016| access-date=3 April 2021| archive-date=24 September 2020| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924204955/https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/taplow-neighbours-pay-tribute-to-very-friendly-sir-terry-wogan-34411563.html| url-status=live}}</ref>
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
{{Commons category|Taplow}}
*[http://www.taplowsociety.org.uk/ Hitcham and Taplow Society]
*[http://www.taplowpc.org.uk/ Taplow Parish Council]
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[[Category:Villages in Buckinghamshire]]
[[Category:Civil parishes in Buckinghamshire]]
[[Category:Hill forts in Buckinghamshire]]
[[Category:Populated places on the River Thames]]