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The pond on the Village Green

Taplow does not have a village pond - or at least, it is not supposed to have one. Recently quite a lot of water has appeared near the Village Centre, which is causing some head-scratching. See Gill Holloway's article in the Autumn 2007 Newsletter for more information.

Comparing old maps with new ones give some insight. Here I have overlaid a modern map on top of one from 1875. The old pond is clearly visible behind what is now School House.

Overlaid maps showing the location of the old pond

-- AndrewFindlay - 04 Sep 2007

02 Jan 2009 19:56:08 GrahamHickman:

This is very interesting from a geological point of view. The spring which would feed it starts at the base of the Black Park Gravels and the juction with the underlying clays of the Lambeth Group(formally Reading Beds. The flat area of the cricket pitch is an old river terrace, water percolates through the gravels until it reached the impermeable clays and silts of the Lambeth Group and then surface as a spring. Lots of good examples of this occur at Burnham Beeches on the valley slope just north of the Cafe.

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