Editing Taplow (section)

==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"/>