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Taplow is a village and civil parish in the South Bucks district in Buckinghamshire, England. It sits on the east bank of the River Thames facing Maidenhead, and is roughly one mile west of Burnham, Buckinghamshire and also about one mile east of Dorney Reach in Berkshire. 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. Its two large stately homes with parkland adjoin each other and face the Thames, Taplow Court and Cliveden and sit at the highest point of the intermittent terraced gravel formations stretching from the Chiltern Hills in the far north of the parish to beyond Windsor to the south and as far east as the edge of Central London. Each was designated by central body responsible a protected areas under the UK's statutory planning scheme (in this instance a listed park and garden). There are two conservation areas: the Taplow Village Conservation Area and the Taplow Riverside Conservation Area. Charing Cross is east of Taplow's centre and 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 site is the eponym of the Taplow Terrace, a layer of gravel and sand laid down in the London Basin over the London Clay in the Pleistocene Ice Age.〔(1 ).〕 The village name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'Tæppa's barrow'; the Anglo-Saxon burial mound of Taeppa 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.〔Bucks Archeological Service Historic Environment Resource Assessment〕 William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough lived at Taplow Court.〔Christopher Winn, ''I Never Knew That About the River Thames'' (Random House, 2010) ISBN 0-09-193357-9 p.138〕 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. 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). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Taplow」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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