Marlow (; historically Great Marlow or Chipping Marlow) is a town and

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within the Unitary Authority of

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, England. It is located on the

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, south-southwest of

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, west-northwest of

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and west of central

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Name

The name is recorded in 1015 as ''Mere lafan'', meaning "Land left after the draining of a pond" in

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. From Norman times the manor, parish, and later borough were formally known as Great Marlow, distinguishing them from

Little Marlow Little Marlow is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England. History The Church of England parish church of Saint John the Baptist lies at the heart of the village, not far from the river and next to the Manor House. The original ...

. The ancient parish was large, including rural areas north and west of the town. In 1896 the

of Great Marlow was divided into Great Marlow Urban District (the town) and Great Marlow civil parish (the rural areas). In 1897 the urban district was renamed

Marlow Urban District Marlow Urban District was a local government authority in the administrative county of Buckinghamshire, England, between 1896 and 1974, covering the town of Marlow. Origins When parish and district councils were established in December 1894 ...

, and the town has been known simply as Marlow.

History

Marlow is recorded in the

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as ''Merlaue''. Magna Britannia includes the following entry for Marlow: "The manor of Marlow, which had belonged to the Earls of Mercia, was given by

William the Conqueror William I; ang, WillelmI (Bates ''William the Conqueror'' p. 33– 9 September 1087), usually known as William the Conqueror and sometimes William the Bastard, was the first Norman king of England, reigning from 1066 until his death in 10 ...

, 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

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's marriage with

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, until Queen Mary granted it to William Lord Paget, in whose family it continued more than a century; after which, it passed, by purchase, to Sir Humphrey Winch, in 1670; to

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in 1686; to Sir James Etheridge in 1690; to Sir John Guise in 1718; and to Sir William Clayton in 1736. It is now the property of Sir William Clayton bart. a descendant of the last purchaser". Marlow owed its importance to its location on the River Thames, where the road from

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crosses the river. It had its own market by 1227 (hence the name Chipping Marlow), although the market lapsed before 1600. Marlow's status as a regional commercial centre was present even before the first bridge in this area was built in the

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due to the settlement acting as an inland port. A 14th century hall, known as '''The Old Parsonage built in Marlow on St Peters Street is currently the oldest inhabited building in Buckinghamshire. From 1301 to 1307, the town had its own

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, and it returned two members from 1624 to 1867. The population of Great Marlow was 4,480 by 1841.

Geography

Marlow is adjoined by

Marlow Bottom Marlow Bottom is a linear village occupying a valley to the north of Marlow, Buckinghamshire. It is also a civil parish in the Buckinghamshire district having been created in November 2007. Formerly it was part of the parish of Great Marlow. Mar ...

, a mile to the north.

is nearby to the east along the A4155 Little Marlow Road and Bourne End is further along the same road. To the south across the Thames are Bisham (home of Bisham Abbey) and Cookham Dean, both in Berkshire.

Landmarks

There has been a bridge over the Thames at Marlow since the reign of King

Edward III Edward III (13 November 1312 – 21 June 1377), also known as Edward of Windsor before his accession, was King of England and Lord of Ireland from January 1327 until his death in 1377. He is noted for his military success and for restoring r ...

. The current bridge is a suspension bridge, designed by

William Tierney Clark William Tierney Clark FRS FRAS (23 August 1783 – 22 September 1852) was an English civil engineer particularly associated with the design and construction of bridges. He was among the earliest designers of suspension bridges. Born in B ...

in 1832, and it was constructed by 1835. It was a prototype for and is twinned with the much larger Széchenyi Chain Bridge across the River Danube in

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Royal Military College Great Marlow, 1810

The Junior Wing of the Royal Military College, which is now based at Sandhurst, was once based at Remnantz, a large house in West Street, built in the early 18th century. Former Crown Hotel, Marlow-geograph

Marlow Town Hall, which later became a hotel and then a shop, was completed in 1807. The Hand & Flowers - Marlow in 2014

The Hand & Flowers The Hand & Flowers is a gastropub in Marlow, Buckinghamshire that opened in 2005. Owned and operated by Tom Kerridge and his wife Beth Cullen-Kerridge, it gained its first Michelin star within a year of opening and a second in the 2012 list, ...

, the first

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to hold two

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s, is located on West Street. It is one of several local pubs serving award-winning beers brewed locally, in Marlow Bottom, by the

Rebellion Beer Company The Rebellion Beer Company in Marlow Bottom, Buckinghamshire, England is a microbrewery that produces regular and seasonal beers. It uses the chalky water of the local Chiltern Hills, which has high levels of minerals and salts. History It was f ...

. Marlow is the location of Marlow Lock, originating from the 14th century. MarlowLock02

Twinning

Marlow is twinned with * Marly-le-Roi, France, since 1980. * Budavár, a district of

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Transport

The

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runs through Marlow town centre, with the A404 lying one mile to the east, the

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further to the north, and the

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to the south. Marlow is served by a

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which is the terminus of a single-track branch line from

. The train service is known as the Marlow Donkey, which was the nickname given to the steam locomotives that once operated on the line. There is also a pub with the same name, located close to the railway station. Bus services are provided by

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to neighbouring towns, including

Henley-on-Thames Henley-on-Thames ( ) is a town and civil parish on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, England, northeast of Reading, west of Maidenhead, southeast of Oxford and west of London (by road), near the tripoint of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckin ...

and

Education

Education is provided by several schools, including: * Great Marlow School (11–18) * Sir William Borlase's Grammar School (11–18) *Burford School (4–11) *Danesfield School (4–11) *Foxes Piece School (4–11) *Holy Trinity Church of England School (7–11) *Marlow Church of England Infant School (4–7) *Spinfield School (4–11) *St Peter's Catholic Primary School (4–11)

Governance

There are two tiers of local government covering Marlow, at parish (town) and unitary authority level: Marlow Town Council, and

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Marlow Town Council was established in 1974 as a

successor parish Successor parishes are civil parishes with a parish council, created in England in 1974. They replaced, with the same boundaries, a selected group of urban districts and municipal boroughs: a total of 300 successor parishes were formed from the ...

to the former Marlow Urban District Council, which had been created in 1896. The urban district council had been based at Court Garden House since 1934, and the town council continues to be based there. Between 1974 and 2020 the town was also included in the Wycombe District, based in

. The county and district councils merged in 2020 to become the unitary Buckinghamshire Council. Marlow is divided into three wards for electing town councillors: North & West, South and South East. There are a total of twelve Marlow Town Councillors elected from these wards. The wards have seven, two and three seats respectively. Since 2011, the Town Council has been entirely

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with several councillors "double-hatting" across town and

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council. The town forms a single ward with three councillors for electing councillors to Buckinghamshire Council. In the 2021 local elections, a group of independent candidates contested eleven out of the twelve seats. They worked under the banner "Independents for Marlow" and were inspired by similar actions in

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and other places, part of the "flatpack democracy" movement. None were successful and all twelve seats were held by Conservatives.

Sport

Rowing

Marlow Rowing Club, founded in 1871, is one of Britain's premier rowing clubs and has produced many Olympic oarsmen including Sir Steve Redgrave. The club is based by Marlow Bridge and exercises above and below the lock. The Olympic lightweight men's double-sculls gold medallist at Beijing 2008,

Zac Purchase Zachary Jake Nicholas Purchase-Hill MBE (born 2 May 1986) is a retired English rower. Purchase won an Olympic gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Both medals were won in the ...

, is a former member of Marlow Rowing Club.

Football

Marlow F.C. Marlow Football Club is a football club based in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England. They are currently members of the and play at the Alfred Davis Memorial Ground. Marlow are the only football club in England to have applied for entry into the F ...

is the oldest

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club in the town, currently playing in Tier 8

Southern Football League The Southern League is a men's football competition featuring semi-professional clubs from the South and Midlands of England. Together with the Isthmian League and the Northern Premier League it forms levels seven and eight of the English ...

Division One Central. Marlow F.C are the only football club in England to have applied for entry into the FA Cup every season since its inception in 1871. The first England captain Cuthbert Ottaway played for Marlow F.C. Ottaway was selected to lead the England team travelling to

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to meet Scotland on 30 November 1872 in what is now recognised as the first international match to be played. The game ended in a 0–0 draw. Another local football club,

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plays in Tier 11 and finished 2nd of 14 in the 2016/17 season.

Rugby

Marlow Rugby Club plays at Riverwoods Drive. It was founded in 1947 and runs a range of senior, youth and mini-rugby teams.

Cricket

There are two cricket clubs, Marlow Park CC, and Marlow Cricket Club which was founded in 1829 and is now part of Marlow Sports Club. Marlow Cricket Club has three Saturday teams and plays in the Thames Valley League. The Sports Club caters to field hockey, tennis, running, cycling, junior football.

Tennis

Marlow Tennis Club was founded in 1899 and also plays at Marlow Sports Club. It has four floodlit all-weather courts and fields men's, women's and mixed teams in Bucks, Berks and Farnham Common leagues.

Other sports

Marlow Sports Club also hosts five other sports, hockey, running (Marlow Striders), cycling (Marlow Riders), junior football, and petanque.

Regatta

There are two regattas associated with Marlow; the

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and Marlow International Regatta. Earliest records indicate a regatta took place annually on the River Thames in Marlow from 1855. The latter transferred to the purpose built

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, owned by

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, in 2003. Marlow still hosts its Original River Regatta which takes place annually in June.

Marlow FM 97.5

Marlow FM is a local community radio station that was launched on FM on 11 May 2011. It broadcasts to Marlow and the surrounding areas on 97.5FM, and also streams over the internet. The station provides travel and news updates for the local area.

Notable people

Notable current and former residents in approximate birth order. * Sir William Borlase, a british politician born in the 17th century. In 1624 he founded Sir William Borlase Grammar School in the town of Marlow in memory of his son Henry Borlase MP for Greater Marlow. *Dr William Battie, an eminent 18th-century physician specialising in mental illness, built and lived in Court Garden House from 1758 until his death in 1776. Local lore has it that he forgot to include a staircase to the first floor, so it had to be added later. In 1789 his daughter sold the house to Richard Davenport, High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire, who lived there for 10 years, during which, Court Garden was described in Boydells ''History of the River Thames'' (1793), as "a fine Georgian house standing on a gentle eminence, a lawn of some extent descending gradually from it to the river." In 1926 the estate was saved for the people of Marlow, largely due to the efforts of local resident and

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veteran General George Higginson, after whom Higginson Park is named. *

Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley ( ; 4 August 17928 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition of his achi ...

and

Mary Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (; ; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel '' Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus'' (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction. She also ...

moved into a house in West Street in 1816. He composed '' The Revolt of Islam'' there in 1817, while Mary worked on ''

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''.

Thomas Love Peacock Thomas Love Peacock (18 October 1785 – 23 January 1866) was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. He was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley and they influenced each other's work. Peacock wrote satirical novels, ...

, who had suggested Shelley move to the town, wrote his novel ''

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'' (1818) at a nearby house. * Cuthbert Ottaway played for Marlow F.C. He was the first captain of the England football team and led his side in the first official international football match (1872). * Jerome K. Jerome wrote part of ''Three Men in a Boat'' at a local pub, the ''Two Brewers''. * T. S. Eliot lived in West Street during the

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*Marlow Bottom has become the home of quintuple Olympic gold medallist rower

Steve Redgrave Sir Steven Geoffrey Redgrave (born 23 March 1962) is a British retired rower who won gold medals at five consecutive Olympic Games from 1984 to 2000. He has also won three Commonwealth Games gold medals and nine World Rowing Championships gold ...

, Britain's only athlete to have won gold medals at five consecutive Olympics. Higginson Park features a bronze statue of Sir Steven looking across the river towards the location of the finishing line of the Marlow Town Regatta. He is also commemorated in ''Redgrave Place''.> *The star chef

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, owner of The Fat Duck in Bray, Berkshire (voted Best Restaurant in the World in 2005) lived in Marlow until about 2017. *Actress Anna Acton was born in Marlow. *Television and radio presenter Paul Ross, brother of

Jonathan Ross Jonathan Stephen Ross (born 17 November 1960) is an English broadcaster, film critic, comedian, actor, writer, and producer. He presented the BBC One chat show ''Friday Night with Jonathan Ross'' during the 2000s, hosted his own radio show on ...

, also lived in Marlow, having moved there after filming '' Celebrity Fit Club'' at nearby Bisham Abbey. He moved out of Marlow in 2013. *Japanese

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Takuma Sato was a Marlow resident, as was Bruno Senna, who lived in the same house. *Pakistani cricketer and

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(ICC) match Referee Wasim Raja lived in Marlow and worked as a cricket coach in a local school. *Musician Jim Capaldi lived in Marlow for many years with his wife and two daughters until his death in 2005. *England scrum-half and World Cup-winner Matt Dawson spent his childhood in Marlow and went to a local primary school. *Ireland Cricket Captain,

Andrew Balbirnie Andrew Balbirnie (born 28 December 1990) is an Irish cricketer, the current captain of the Ireland cricket team in all formats. Balbirnie is a right-handed batsman and an occasional wicket-keeper. He was born in Dublin and was educated at St. An ...

, spent his early childhood living on Chapel Street in Marlow. * Peter Firth, Sir Harry Pearce in the BBC MI5 drama '' Spooks'', is a Marlow resident. *

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, former England cricket captain, moved to Little Marlow with his family in 2010. * Tom Kerridge, Michelin Star chef, lives in Marlow with his wife and son. * Beth Cullen-Kerridge, sculptor, has lived in Marlow since 2005. *

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, radio and television personality, bought a property in Marlow in June 2019. *

Ricky Gervais Ricky Dene Gervais ( ; born 25 June 1961) is an English comedian, actor, writer, and director. He co-created, co-wrote, and acted in the British television sitcoms ''The Office'' (2001–2003), '' Extras'' (2005–2007), and ''An Idiot Abroad'' ...

, actor and writer, owns a property in Marlow. *

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, singer and songwriter, lives in Marlow. *

Rachel Burden Rachel Mary Ann Cecilia Burden (born 22 January 1975 in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England) is a newsreader, radio news reporter and presenter. She has presented the BBC Radio 5 Live weekday breakfast show since 2011. She is also one of the main we ...

, BBC Radio 5 Live producer, grew up in Marlow. * Naomi Riches MBE lives in Marlow and has a gold postbox on the High Street as a commemoration for winning gold in the

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for adaptive rowing.

Cultural references

Marlow was the subject of a poem by

Joseph Ashby-Sterry Joseph Ashby-Sterry (1836 or 1838 – 1 June 1917)Oxford IndeRetrieved 24 June 2018. was an English poet, novelist and journalist born in London. He contributed to ''Punch''. Life Ashby-Sterry was born in London, as the only son of Henry Sterry ...

, ''A Marlow Madrigal''.

Gallery

File:Marlow 001.JPG, Court Garden House, former home of Dr William Battie File:Marlow 005.jpg, Rowers on the Thames at Marlow File:Marlow 012.jpg, Marlow High Street File:Marlow 013.jpg, Marlow Place File:Marlow 014.jpg, The Two Brewers, where Jerome K Jerome wrote much of Three Men in a Boat File:Marlow 015.jpg, The Compleat Angler, Marlow File:Marlow 019.jpg, Looking towards Marlow from Marlow Lock File:Marlow Lock.jpg, Marlow Lock File:Former Royal Military College, Marlow, Bucks.jpg, Former Royal Military College, Marlow 1802-1812 File:Former Wethered Brewery, Marlow, Bucks.jpg, Former Wethered Brewery, Marlow

References

External links

Marlow Town CouncilMyMarlow.co.uk
– community website with event listings, pub and restaurant reviews; a guide to living in and visiting the town {{authority control Populated places on the River Thames Towns in Buckinghamshire Civil parishes in Buckinghamshire