Marlow, GREAT, a town of Buckinghamshire, on the Thames, 29 miles W. of London by rail, has manufactures of lace and paper, an iron suspension bridge, a house where Shelley lived in 1817, and a grammar-school (formerly a blue-coat school). It sent two members to parliament down to 1867, and one till 1885. Pop. of parish (1891) 5283.
Marlow, GREAT
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 51
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