The village's name is Anglo-Saxon in origin, and means Tæppa's barrow; the Anglo-Saxon 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.[7][8]
In 1883 a number of important Anglo-Saxon royal grave goods were discovered, reflecting similar discoveries in Prittlewell, 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.[citation needed]
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.[2]
Demography
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.[10]
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.[11]
2011 Published Statistics: Population, home ownership and extracts from Physical Environment, surveyed in 2005[1]
Output area
Homes owned outright
Owned with a loan
Socially rented
Privately rented
Other
km2 roads
km2 water
km2 domestic gardens
km2 domestic buildings
km2 non-domestic buildings
Usual residents
km2
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
Tom Dean (born 2000), swimmer and 2020 Olympic Gold medallist in 200m freestyle, lives with his family in Taplow[12]
^"South Lodge Pit citation"(PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Archived(PDF) from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
^"Map of South Lodge Pit". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
^Bucks Archeological Service Historic Environment Resource Assessment