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    • The Palace of Collyweston – A Brief History
    • The Appearance of The Palace
    • The Ruin of The Palace of Collyweston
    • Interview: Collyweston in The Records
    • Collyweston Palace: Found!

    Collyweston, in Northamptonshire, is a quintessential sleepy English village, with an old-fashioned village sign, medieval parish church and obligatory pub. It lies not far from Stamford, which, in days gone by, straddled the old North Road. This was THE major, medieval route between London and the North of England during the Tudor period. This mad...

    Sadly, there are no extant images or plans of the palace. Accounts describe an ‘outward’ court, in which a ‘great walnut tree’ was noted to grow during the Tudor era; by deduction, this suggests that there was also an ‘inward court’. Thus, we have at least a two-courtyard house. In fact, the most recent research has revealed that Colyweston was a t...

    In September 1737, William Stukeley, an antiquarian on his travels through England, rode through Collyweston and saw ‘My Tyron’s house, the royal palace of Henry VII’s mother, Margaret, Countess of Richmond’. In the notes, he adds that the royal palace once existed where ‘Mr Tyron’s stackyard is’ and that within living memory there was ‘a great hal...

    Sarah: So Sandra, we have heard from Chris that the actual location of the palace isn’t known, but what do we know about the palace itself, particularly its appearance? Sandra:It was pretty significant. In fact, it was a vast building. We know it had two courtyards, and potentially three, because Margaret Beaufort added to it, notably for the arriv...

    After an absence of four years, I returned to Collyweston this Autumn (2023) to hear the latest update in the search for Margarer’s Tudor palace. Little by little, the project has gained traction (and therefore funding!) over the last four years, culminating in a full geophysical survey (conducted by John Gater of Time Team fame) of the site on a s...

  3. Apr 25, 2020 · Learn about the palace of Collyweston, the Midlands powerhouse of the matriarch of the Tudor dynasty, Margaret Beaufort in this interview with Rachel Delman.

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  4. It was a fine house enlarged by one of the great builders of his age Ralph, Lord Cromwell. Henry VII granted it to his mother Lady Margaret Beaufort, the Countess of Richmond. It became her major country seat. Work was commissioned through her lifetime enlarging and improving the manor house.

  5. Margaret is the main protagonist of the three-part 2021 series, Royal Bastards: Rise of the Tudors, wherein the story of the Wars of the Roses is dramatised and told from three viewpoints: the House of York, the House of Lancaster and Margaret herself. Margaret is portrayed by two actors (younger and older); Nina Marlin and Phoebe Sparrow.

  6. Feb 12, 2019 · Geophysical surveys are taking place in the Northamptonshire village of Collyweston, once home to Henry VII's mother Lady Margaret Beaufort, who died in 1509.

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