Marlow (previously Great Marlow or Chipping Marlow) is a town and civil parish within Wycombe district in south Buckinghamshire, England. It is located on the River Thames, four miles south-south-west of High Wycombe, and four miles north west of Maidenhead.
The town name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'land remaining after the draining of a pool'. The name is first attested as Merelafan in 1017. In the Domesday Book in 1086 it is recorded a...
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Marlow (previously Great Marlow or Chipping Marlow) is a town and civil parish within Wycombe district in south Buckinghamshire, England. It is located on the River Thames, four miles south-south-west of High Wycombe, and four miles north west of Maidenhead.
The town name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'land remaining after the draining of a pool'. The name is first attested as Merelafan in 1017. In the Domesday Book in 1086 it is recorded as Merlaue.
"The manor of Marlow, which had belonged to the Earls of Mercia, was given by William the Conqueror, to his Queen Matilda. Henry the First, bestowed it on his natural son, Robert de Melhent, afterwards Earl of Gloucester, from whom it passed, with that title, to the Clares and Despencers, and from the latter, by female heirs, to the Beauchamps and Nevilles, Earls of Warwick. It continued in the crown from the time of Richard III's marriage with Anne Neville, until Queen Mary granted it to William Lord Paget, in whose family it...
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