[citation needed] Officially the club was formed at a meeting held at the Chequers Hotel in the High Street, Marlow on Tuesday, 3 February 1947.

However, a rugby match was played on 8 February 1913 on Crown Meadow against High Wycombe RFC and (not for the first time), Marlow triumphed by 13pts to nil.

He wrote :- 'At the end of 1912 one or two of us who had been at schools which played Rugger thought it might be amusing to get together if possible a team to show Marlow – which was then prominent at Soccer – what 'The handling game' was like.

Crown Meadow was hired, (this was before it became Riley Recreation Ground) erected goal posts, marked out the pitch and had several intensive practices to try and instil some basic principles and to form a team.

Quite a large crowd watched the game and yelled their surprise and approved whenever a tackle was made – especially when a three quarter was downed and hurled over the touch line.

Dick Simpson, who was in attendance Tuesday 3 February 1947, at the Chequers Hotel, recalled, "It was not long after the war that some rugby enthusiasts in Marlow led by farmer John White started to talk about the possibility of forming a local club.

After a lot of jaw, principally in the bar of the Chequers on Saturday nights and Sunday mornings, it was agreed to hold an inaugural meeting.

These matches were played on Home Meadow at Sir William Borlase's Grammar School and teas were served at the Cross Keys pub afterwards.

Players in that 1947 season included Eric Page, a lightning fast winger who scored a prodigious number of tries for the club.

On the other wing was George Wooster, landlord of the Cross Keys pub and, like his fictional relation, was quite a character in his own right.

The club's first full season went with a swing, the 1st XV won 17 out of the 24 games played, with one drawn match and six losses.

Like all amateur organisations Marlow Rugby Club was, and still is, dependent on subscriptions and fund raising exercises from the membership.

Whole three-quarter lines are said to have fallen over the first time they mounted an attack and movements were often broken-up when a player looked to pass as he ran onto it.

The after game sociability, which is apparent at Marlow, owes a lot to the long sessions enforced by coach travel in these formative years.

In the season 1949-50 the Club changed the style to match the hooped playing shirts of Sir William Borlase's Grammar School.

At AGMs in 1952 and 1954 a proposal to change the design of the jersey was defeated on both occasions, however in 1956 a compromise was reached and a black shirt with a narrow white band was adopted.

However, there was one task that had to be completed before any rugby could take place, and that was to collect the posts from Alistair Findlay's house in Lock Road.

'A' team players did keep fit, as after the game the posts had to be taken down and returned to Alistair's house, and then it was a dash to the sports club pavilion to see if there was any hot water left.

At a Special General Meeting on Tuesday, 11 September 1962 at the Chequers Hotel, Richard Welsford and a Mr. Wedlake outlined the negotiations that had taken place with regard to 21 acres of land down by the river.

In the end Thomas Wethereds, who were the town brewery company and Middlesex County Rugby Football Union agreed to loan the club £2500 each over a period of 10 years.

By this time Marlow was running 5 sides and the future was looking bright for all those people who had put so much hard work into moving the rugby club to Riverwoods.

In 1969 that was a substantial sum of money, as is shown by the fact that the alternative choice for the lucky winner was a Morris Mini car which was then selling at £499.

In October of that year Marlow started a Sunday morning activity that was to change the lives of young boys and their parents who attended that inaugural meeting forever – Mini Rugby was born at Riverwoods.

It would be no exaggeration to say that the team he brought down to Marlow that night consisted of probably the greatest collection of International talent that was around in Britain at that time: John Dawes, JPR Williams, Geoff Evans, John Taylor, (members of the victorious 1971 British Lions team in New Zealand), Mike Burton, Roger Hosen, Bill Gittings were just some of the glittering array of talented players on display that night.

What did matter was that players of this calibre were prepared to give up an evening, and for many of them a long night and early morning, to come and help a club such as Marlow celebrate the addition of facilities that would help to advance the cause of Rugby A year later was the formation of a team that was to extend rugby players careers (and their waist lines) even further – a Vets team – The Stragglers was started at Marlow.

Players from first class clubs in London, were attracted to this beautiful Thames side setting and naturally Riverwoods was their first port of call.

1980 Being Champions of 6 Counties saw Marlow drawn against Bath (included 3 current Internationals) to become the 1st Junior club to reach the last 32 in the John Player Cup on 3 occasions (Played Rosslyn Park 1972 and 1975) The team acquitted themselves so well on the day, that Jack Rowell (later to become England Manager) brought the Bath team to play a pre season warm up game at Marlow under lights.

For many years leading up to this time, the club had been in negotiations with Willie Morris, the farmer who owned approximately half of the land that was Riverwoods.

The World Cup held in England in 1991 was yet another opportunity for Marlow to show that when it comes to organising events, not many clubs can hold a candle to us.

In 2024, Marlow parted ways with coaches Rory Greenslade-Jones and Stuart ‘Sly’ Silvester after 8 years under their fantastic tenure, securing the two promotions mentioned before.