Old St Nicolas' churchyard, Taplow
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Old St Nicolas' churchyard, Taplow
Image: © Stefan Czapski Taken: 13 Jan 2014
A very strange place indeed. Two churches, it seems, have stood here - the first built in the 7th century, the second demolished in the 19th (though just when is not clear). Looming over the churchyard is Taplow Court - a vast chateau of a house, Victorian Gothick, built in about 1855. But the most unlikely element here - and the earliest - is Taeppa's Mound, a massive Saxon burial mound, said to date from about 620 AD: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3814805 Photo taken on a January day of fast-changing light, with sunny spells, heavy showers, and rainbows.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.531265
Longitude
-0.694844