Director/PDMR Shareholding

Taylor Wimpey PLC
04 December 2007


Taylor Wimpey plc

Taylor Wimpey Employee Share Ownership Trusts


Share Transfers

Taylor Wimpey plc ('the Company') has today sold 4,300,000 25p ordinary shares
('Shares') held in Treasury to its Share Ownership Trusts.

3,800,000 Shares were sold to the Taylor Woodrow Employee Share Ownership Trust
1995 ('ESOT 1').

500,000 Shares were sold to the Taylor Woodrow Employee Share Ownership Trust
2004 ('ESOT 2').

These Shares will be used to meet the valid exercise or vesting of options or
awards over Shares granted under the terms of the Company's various share plans;

Following these transactions, ESOT 1 holds 4,160,651 Shares; ESOT 2 holds
1,011,491 Shares and 78,881,469 Shares are held in Treasury.

Each of the executive directors of the Company is a potential beneficiary under
both ESOT 1 and ESOT 2 and therefore is regarded as having a notional interest
in the current holdings of each ESOT.



James Jordan
Group Company Secretary
Taylor Wimpey plc

4 December 2007




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