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A delightful Thames-side
village, Marlow has a number of important literary
connections. Mary Wollstonecroft wrote the horror
classic ‘Frankenstein’ while living at Albion
House in West Street in 1817-18. Her husband, the
poet Shelley, penned his ‘Revolt of Islam’ here at
the same time. Another poet, TS Eliot, also lived
in West Street for a short time after World War
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The oldest building is the Old Parsonage, which
dates to the 14th century, and in the Church of St
Peter is a mummified hand said to have belonged to
St James the Apostle. At least one local hostelry,
the Crown Hotel, was a regular haunt of the
highwayman Dick Turpin. |
Marlow Church and Bridge - Photo:
Rob Farrow
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