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'''Collyweston''' is a village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire, about three miles southwest of Stamford, Lincolnshire, on the road (the A43) to Kettering. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 514.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11122206&c=Collyweston&d=16&e=62&g=6451095&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1467367351645&enc=1|title=Civil Parish population 2011|access-date=1 July 2016|publisher=Office for National Statistics|work=Neighbourhood Statistics}}</ref>
Collyweston is home to the Collyweston Association (Collyweston Assoccer) and the Global Fantasy Assoccer Federation the worldwide governing body of fantasy sports.
==Geography== The village is on the southern side of the Welland valley east of Tixover. The River Welland, at the point nearby to the northwest, is the boundary between Rutland and Northamptonshire. Ketton and Collyweston railway station was closed in 1966.
Collyweston is currently served by buses on the Stamford–to–Peterborough ''via'' Duddington route. The Jurassic Way and Hereward Way pass through the village to the north, crossing the Welland at Collyweston Bridge, near Geeston.
The A47 road passes through the parish to the south, with Collyweston Great Wood to the south. The road from the A47, continuing in a straight line to the village is called Kingscliffe Road.
===Nature reserve=== The local Wildlife Trust has a fifteen-acre nature reserve at Collyweston Quarries where Lincolnshire limestone was quarried, to the north of the A43. This has the pyramidal orchid, common dodder, greater knapweed, common rock-rose, common bird's foot trefoil, and clustered bellflower. Birds found there include the European green woodpecker and glowworms are found there in the summer.
There is also an SSSI at Collyweston Great Wood.
==History== thumb|St Andrew's Church, Collyweston The village's name means 'West farm/settlement'. Colin is a pet-form of Nicholas who held the manor in the 13th century.<ref>{{cite web |title=Key to English Place-names |url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Northamptonshire/Collyweston}}</ref> An alternative name for the village may be "Colyns Weston", in 1396.<ref>Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; National Archives; CP 40/541; http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT6/R2/CP40no541a/bCP40no541adorses/IMG_0466.htm; third entry from the bottom</ref>
A pub on Main Road is called 'The Collyweston Slater', owned by Everards Brewery. New houses have been built down a road called 'Collyns Way'. The parish church is St Andrew's, a Grade II* listed building.
John Stokesley (1475–1539), an English clergyman who was Bishop of London during the reign of Henry VIII was born in Collyweston.<ref>{{Cite DNB |wstitle= Stokesley, John | volume= 54 |last= Pollard |first= Albert |author-link= Albert Pollard |pages = 403-405 |short=1}}</ref> In the late sixteenth century, the place gave its name to the manner of wearing the mandilion 'Colley-Weston-ward' for unknown reasons.
===Collyweston Palace=== [[File:Lady Margaret Beaufort from NPG.jpg|thumb|right|Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby]] Collyweston Palace was the home, in later life, of Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443–1509), the mother of Henry VII.<ref>[https://www.royalpalaces.com/palaces/collyweston-house/ Collyweston House: Royal Palaces, Simon Thurley]</ref> Henry VII was at Collyweston in October 1493, and in September 1495 before moving on to "Rekyng" as he journeyed to Northampton.<ref>Samuel Bentley, ''Excerpta Historica'' (London, 1831), pp. 93, 105.</ref> In 1498, though still married, Margaret Beaufort made a vow of chastity and chose to live at Collyweston.<ref>Retha M. Warnicke, "Lady Margaret Beaufort: A Noblewoman of Independent Wealth and Status", ''Fifteen Century Studies'', 9 (1984), pp. 220-221.</ref>
The household of Margaret Beaufort at Collyweston, her chapel, and New Year's Day festivities at Collyweston with Princess Cecily were described for Mary I by Henry Parker, 10th Baron Morley,<ref>Lorraine Attreed & Alexandra Winkler, "Faith and Forgiveness: Lessons in Statecraft for Queen Mary Tudor", ''Sixteenth Century Journal'', 36:4 (Winter, 2005), pp. 971-2, 982.</ref> who had served Margaret Beaufort as a teenager.<ref>Fiona Kisby, "A Mirror for Monarchy: Music and Musicians at the Household Chapel of the Lady Margaret Beaufort", ''Early Music History'', 16 (1997), p. 211.</ref><ref>Michael K. Jones & Malcolm G. Underwood, ''The King's Mother: Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby'' (Cambridge, 1992), p. 158.</ref>
New furnishings for Lady Margaret Beaufort's apartments at Collyweston were embroidered with her heraldic badges of roses and the portcullis by Sebastian Mussheka in 1498, and she donated textiles and vestments to the parish church at Collyweston, including a then old-fashioned green damask cope.<ref>Susan Powell, "Textiles and Dress in the Household Papers of Margaret Beaufort", ''Medieval Clothing and Textiles'', 11 (Boydell, 2015), pp. 145-8.</ref> Margaret Tudor (1489–1541) came to Collyweston in 1503 on her way to join her husband James IV of Scotland.<ref>Agnes Strickland, ''Lives of the Queens of Scotland: Margaret Tudor'', 1 (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1850), pp. 26–27.</ref> One of her attendants, Elizabeth Zouche married Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare (1487–1534) at the palace,<ref>Michael K. Jones & Malcolm G. Underwood, ''The King's Mother'' (Cambridge, 1992), p. 114.</ref> and six Spanish dancers performed a morris dance.<ref>Michael Heaney, ''The Ancient English Morris Dance'' (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023), p. 14.</ref>
In 1506, a priest, John Stokesley, was brought before Lady Margaret Beaufort's manor court charged with the crime of baptising a cat as part of a charm to find treasure.<ref>David Cressy, ''Travesties and Transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England: Tales of Discord and Dissension'' (Oxford, 2000), p. 175.</ref> An inventory of Margaret Beaufort's wardrobe at Collyweston was made after her death in 1509. She had 20 fur-edged black gowns – some with trains, and some without them, a style known as "round".<ref>Maria Hayward, ''Dress at the Court of Henry VIII'' (Maney, 2007), pp. 84-86.</ref>
Anthony Dryland, the bailie and keeper of Collyweston, was a member of the household of Henry FitzRoy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset,<ref>John Gough Nichols, "Memoir of Henry FitzRoy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset", ''Camden Miscellany'', 3 (London, 1855), p. lxx.</ref><ref>''Letters and Papers Henry VIII'', 11 (London, 1888), p. 72 no. 164 (2).</ref> and the Duke lived at Collyweston from 1531 to 1536.<ref>Maria Hayward, ''Dress at the Court of King Henry VIII'' (Maney, 2007), p. 305.</ref> Henry VIII gave the palace to Anne Boleyn in 1536.<ref>''The Statutes of the Realm'', 3 (Dawsons reprint, 1963), p. 651.</ref> In 1550, Edward VI granted the manor to his sister Elizabeth.<ref>Howard Colvin, ''The History of the King's Works'', 4:2 (London: HMSO, 1982), p. 67.</ref>
Timber was sent to Collyweston from the Forest of Rockingham for works by the Master Carpenter John Revell in 1562.<ref>Joseph Stevenson, ''Calendar State Papers Foreign Elizabeth, 1562'' (London, 1867), p. 97 no. 194 footnote.</ref> In 1566, the palace was extensively repaired for Elizabeth I.<ref>Howard Colvin,'' The History of the King's Works'', 3:1 (London: HMSO, 1975), p. 79: ''Records of the Office of the Auditors of Land Revenue'', 1 (List and Index Society, 1998), pp. 13, 16.</ref> New windows for the Queen's lodging were glazed with the royal arms and badges. A new timber banqueting house was built.<ref>Howard Colvin, ''The History of the King's Works'', 4:2 (London: HMSO, 1982), p. 67.</ref> Elizabeth I came to Collyweston on her progress on 29 June.<ref>Elizabeth Goldring, Faith Eales, Elizabeth Clarke, Jayne Elisabeth Archer, ''John Nichols's The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth'', 1 (Oxford, 2014), p. 453.</ref> According to Dominique Bourgoing, on 25 September 1586, Mary, Queen of Scots, travelled past the ''chasteau Collunwaston'' on her way to Fotheringhay.<ref>William Kelly, ''Royal Progresses and Visits to Leicester'' (Leicester: Samuel Clarke, p. 311.</ref>
Charles I granted the manor to a Scottish courtier of James VI and I, Patrick Maule.<ref>Howard Colvin, ''The History of the King's Works'', 4:2 (London: HMSO, 1982), p. 67.</ref> The building was dismantled in about 1640, leaving little trace.<ref>{{citation |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/northants/vol6/pp30-36 |contribution=Collyweston |title=An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire, Volume 6, Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire |year=1984 |location=London |publisher=Her Majesty's Stationery Office |page=33}}</ref> In 2023, its location was confirmed using ground-penetrating radar to find the main cluster of buildings, and the footings of walls were unearthed.<ref>Maddy Baillie, [https://www.stamfordmercury.co.uk/news/lost-palace-uncovered-after-centuries-9340504/ "Collyweston Palace uncovered by local history society", ''Stamford Mercury'', 18 November 2023]</ref>{{DEFAULTSORT:}}<ref name="smithsonianmag/180984655">{{cite news |last1=Solly |first1=Meilan |title=Amateur Historians Unearth a Long-Lost Tudor Palace Visited by Henry VIII and Elizabeth I |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/amateur-historians-unearth-a-long-lost-tudor-palace-visited-by-henry-viii-and-elizabeth-i-180984655/ |work=Smithsonian Magazine |language=en}}</ref>
=="Collywest"== The term '{{not a typo|collywest}}' (or '{{not a typo|colleywest}}', or '{{not a typo|collywesson}}') is a derivative of Collyweston that may be used to describe anything crooked, awry, wobbly, or generally disordered, or opposite, the wrong way, or contrary. It has been suggested that when slate was quarried in Collyweston, the good-quality, even pieces were sold, leaving the crooked poorer-quality pieces to use for the village's houses, making for very disordered rooftops.<ref>{{cite book | last=Ó Muirithe | first=Diarmaid|author-link=Diarmaid Ó Muirithe| title=Words We Don't Use (Much Anymore) | publisher=Gill Books | publication-place=Dublin | date=2011 | isbn=978-0-7171-4810-3}}</ref> In the northern US, the term 'galley-west' is widely held by US dictionaries to be a derivative of 'collywest'.<ref>{{cite dictionary| title=galley-west|dictionary=Merriam-Webster | url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/galley-west}}</ref>
==See also== * Collyweston stone slate * RAF Collyweston
==References== {{Reflist}}
== Further reading == *{{Cite news |last=Specia |first=Megan |date=2024-05-26 |title=Amateur Historians Heard Tales of a Lost Tudor Palace. Then, They Dug It Up. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/26/world/europe/england-collyweston-tudor-palace.html |access-date=2024-07-04 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US}}
==External links== {{Commons category|Collyweston}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20100821011424/http://www.wildlifebcnp.org/reserves/reserve.php?reserveid=94 Collyweston Quarries Nature Reserve] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110724013347/http://www.eastnorthantsonline.co.uk/pp/parish/detail.asp?id=26&page=2 Parish Council] * [https://www.collywestonhistoricalsociety.org.uk/collyweston-palace Collyweston Palace], Collyweston Historical Society * [https://www.royalpalaces.com/palaces/collyweston-house/ Collyweston Palace], Royal Palaces by Simon Thurley
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