Great Marlow is a civil parish within Wycombe district in the English

England

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 county of Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan home county in South East England. The county town is Aylesbury, the largest town in the ceremonial county is Milton Keynes and largest town in the non-metropolitan county is High Wycombe....

 located north of the town of Marlow

Marlow, Buckinghamshire

Marlow is a town and civil parish within Wycombe district in south Buckinghamshire, England...

 and south of High Wycombe

High Wycombe

High Wycombe , commonly known as Wycombe and formally called Chepping Wycombe or Chipping Wycombe until 1946,is a large town in Buckinghamshire, England. It is west-north-west of Charing Cross in London; this figure is engraved on the Corn Market building in the centre of the town...

. The parish includes the hamlets

Hamlet (place)

A hamlet is usually a rural settlement which is too small to be considered a village, though sometimes the word is used for a different sort of community. Historically, when a hamlet became large enough to justify building a church, it was then classified as a village...

 of Bovingdon Green

Bovingdon Green

Bovingdon Green is a hamlet in the civil parish of Great Marlow, just to the west of the town of Marlow in Buckinghamshire, England....

, Burroughs Grove, Chisbridge Cross and Marlow Common, and Danesfield Base

Danesfield Base

Danesfield is a small hamlet in between Marlow and Henley-on-Thames. It is a base where all the homes are for many officers working at various RAF bases nearby, including High Wycombe. There are lots of houses. The houses range from small 3 bedroom houses, up to 6 bedrooms, with 4 and 5 in between...

, a housing estate

Housing estate

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 for RAF officers. Prior to November 2007 the major settlement in Great Marlow was Marlow Bottom

Marlow Bottom

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

 which has now become a civil parish in its own right.

The parish has been so named since Norman times. The ancient parish of Great Marlow, named to distinguish it from Little Marlow

Little Marlow

Little Marlow is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England.It is on the north bank of the River Thames, about a mile east of Marlow. The toponym "Marlow" is derived from the Old English for "land remaining after the draining of a pool"...

, was large, including the town of Marlow and rural areas north and west of the town. The ancient parish became a civil parish in the 19th century, and in 1896 the civil parish was divided. The town became Great Marlow Urban District (later renamed Marlow Urban District

Marlow Urban District

Marlow Urban District was a local government authority in the administrative county of Buckinghamshire, England, between 1896 to 1974.The urban district had a single civil parish called Marlow Urban which comprised the town of Marlow. Between 1894 and 1896 Marlow had been part of Wycombe Rural...

), leaving the rural areas in the parish of Great Marlow. In 1934 Lane End

Lane End, Buckinghamshire

Lane End is a village and civil parish within Wycombe district in Buckinghamshire, England. It is just south of the M40 from High Wycombe, about two miles west of Booker. The village is twinned with Saint-Pierre-d'Oléron in France....

, in the far north of the parish, was transferred from Great Marlow to the parish of Fingest

Fingest

Fingest is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. It is in the Chiltern Hills near the border with Oxfordshire, about six miles WSW of High Wycombe. It lies in the civil parish of Hambleden....

.

The ecclesiastical parish of Great Marlow, which includes the town of Marlow, is now united with the parishes of Marlow Bottom, Little Marlow and Bisham

Bisham

Bisham is a village and civil parish in the Windsor and Maidenhead district of Berkshire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 1,149. The village is on the River Thames, north of which is Marlow in Buckinghamshire...

 (in Berkshire

Berkshire

Berkshire is a historic county in the South of England. It is also often referred to as the Royal County of Berkshire because of the presence of the royal residence of Windsor Castle in the county; this usage, which dates to the 19th century at least, was recognised by the Queen in 1957, and...

).