What is "taplow"

Taplow is a village and civil parish in the South Bucks district in Buckinghamshire, England. It sits on the east bank of the River Thames facing Maidenhead, and is roughly one mile west of Burnham, Buckinghamshire and is next to a brief section of Slough through Burnham (nr Taplow Station) and also about one mile east of Dorney Reach in Berkshire.

Taplow railway station is near the A4 south of the settled part of the village and provides access to and from Oxford, Reading and London Paddington. Its two large stately homes with parkland adjoin each other and face the Thames, Taplow Court and Cliveden and sit at the highest point of the intermittent terraced gravel formations stretching from the Chiltern Hills in the far north of the parish to beyond Windsor to the south and as far east as the edge of Central London. Each was designated by central body responsible a protected areas under the UK's statutory planning scheme (in this instance a listed park and garden).

There are two conservation areas: the Taplow Village Conservation Area and the Taplow Riverside Conservation Area.

Charing Cross is east of Taplow's centre and footpaths connect all parts of the parish to Maidenhead Bridge and to Burnham Beeches a modest, hilly wood marking the start of the Chiltern Hills.