Little Marlow
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| Little Marlow | |
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| Statistics | |
| Population: | 130 |
| Ordnance Survey | |
| OS grid reference: | SU873881 |
| Administration | |
| Parish: | Little Marlow |
| District: | Wycombe |
| Shire county: | Buckinghamshire |
| Region: | South East England |
| Constituent country: | England |
| Sovereign state: | United Kingdom |
| Other | |
| Ceremonial county: | Buckinghamshire |
| Historic county: | Buckinghamshire |
| Services | |
| Police force: | Thames Valley Police |
| Ambulance service: | South Central |
| Post office and telephone | |
| Post town: | MARLOW |
| Postal district: | SL7 |
| Dialling code: | 01628 |
| Politics | |
| UK Parliament: | Beaconsfield |
| European Parliament: | South East England |
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Little Marlow is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England.
It is located on the north bank of the River Thames, about a mile east of Marlow. The village name 'Marlow' is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'land remaining after the draining of a pool'. In 1015 it was recorded as Merelafan. Little Marlow was once the site of a Benedictine convent dedicated to the Virgin Mary. The convent belonged to Bisham Abbey. In 1547 the convent was seized by the Crown in the Dissolution of the Monasteries and was eventually demolished in 1740. Today the village is in a scenic location on the River Thames, although home to a large sewage works and gravel extraction plant.
