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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
TAPLOW, a parish, with a village, in Eton district, Bucks; on the river Thames and the great Western railway, 1 mile E of Maidenhead. It has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Maidenhead. Acres, 1,920. Real property, £5,670; of which £25 are in fisheries, and £100 in gasworks. Pop. in 1851, 704; in 1861, 811. Houses, 126. The property is subdivided. Cliefden is the seat of the Duke of Sutherland , and has been separately noticed. T. Court was formerly the seat of the Earl of Orkney, and is now the seat ofP. Grenfell, Esq. There are several fine villas. The living is a rectory In the diocese of Oxford. Value, £465.* Patron, the Bishop of O. The church was built in 1828. There are a national school, and charities £25.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish, with a village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Taplow CP/AP Eton RegD/PLU Buckinghamshire AncC |
| Place: | Taplow |
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