Monument record 0949700000 - Marlow town

Queen Matilda holds Marlow. It answers for 15 hides. Land for 26 ploughs; in lordship 5 hides; 2 ploughs there. 35 villagers with 23 smallholders have 24 ploughs. 1 slave; 1 mill at 20s; meadow for 26 ploughs; woodland, 1,000 pigs; from 1 fishery 1,000 eels. Total value £25; when acquired £10; as much before 1066. Earl Algar held this manor (B1).
NGR to town centre.
Conservation Area designated on 10th March 1969 and reviewed in 2004. See appraisal (B2).
Survey of bricks used in buildings in Marlow carried out in 2007 and 2008 by Archaeology in Marlow (B3).
Historic towns characterisation project report (B4).
Modern updating of 1904 illustrated guidebook (B5).
Marlow grew up on the banks of the River Thames, and probably owed its importance to its position on the high road between Reading and High Wycombe. As no town records exist for Marlow, very little is known of the history of the borough, but as a mesne borough held by the lords of Great Marlow manor, with which it was granted to William Lord Paget in 1554, it never in the medieval period achieved any real independence. The position of the town where the highway crossed the river must have attracted traders at an early time and burgage rights had been obtained by 1183. The records of the following century show that the traders of Marlow at that time dealt not only in wheat and hides but in cloth as well. An attempt to incorporate the town was made by John Rotherham of Seymours, who by his will dated 24 September 1600 left £40 towards procuring a charter and purchasing a market. No steps, however, were taken in this matter. Great Marlow returned two members of Parliament in 1301, 1304-5, 1306, 1306-7 and 1307, when the right was permitted to lapse for over 300 years. It was re-established in 1624, and two members were regularly returned until the Act of 1867 reduced the number to one (B6).
In 1107-1121 Great Marlow manor was granted to the Earl of Gloucester. In 1183 the Borough of Marlow was fined 5 marks. In 1227 it was represented as a borough and vill by its own jury at the eyre. From 1307 onwards it was taxed as a borough; styled vill (B7).