Village and civil parish in Northamptonshire, England
Human settlement in England
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.
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Geography
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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
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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
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The village's name means 'West farm/settlement'.
Colin
is a pet-form of
Nicholas
who held the manor in the 13th century.
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An alternative name for the village may be "Colyns Weston", in 1396.
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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.
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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
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Collyweston Palace was the home, in later life, of
Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond
(1443?1509) and mother of
Henry VII
. In 1498, though still married, she made a vow of chastity and chose to live at Collyweston.
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The building was dismantled in about 1640, leaving little trace.
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Its location was not definitely known until 2023, when
ground-penetrating radar
confirmed its location and found the main cluster of buildings, and footings of its walls were unearthed.
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The household of Margaret Beaufort at Collyweston, her chapel (equal with her son's), and New Year's Day festivities at Collyweston with
Princess Cecily
were described for
Mary I
by
Henry Parker, 10th Baron Morley
,
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who had served Margaret Beaufort as a teenager.
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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
.
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Margaret Tudor
(1489?1541) came to Collyweston in 1503 on her way to join her husband
James IV of Scotland
. One of her attendants, Elizabeth Zouche married
Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare
(1487?1534) at the palace,
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and six Spanish dancers performed a
morris dance
.
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An inventory was made of Margaret Beaufort's wardrobe at Collyweston after her death in 1509, which includes 20 fur-edged black gowns ? some with trains, and some without them, a style known as "round".
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"Collywest"
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The term 'collywest' (or 'colleywest', or 'collywesson') is a derivative of Collyweston that may be used to describe anything a bit crooked, awry, wobbly, or generally disordered, or meaning opposite, wrong way, or contrary. It has been suggested that when slate had been 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.
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In the northern US, the term 'galleywest' is widely held by US dictionaries to be a derivative of 'collywest'.
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See also
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References
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"Civil Parish population 2011"
.
Neighbourhood Statistics
. Office for National Statistics
. Retrieved
1 July
2016
.
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"Key to English Place-names"
.
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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
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Pollard, Albert
(1898).
"Stokesley, John"
.
Dictionary of National Biography
. Vol. 54. pp. 403?405.
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Retha M. Warnicke, "Lady Margaret Beaufort: A Noblewoman of Independent Wealth and Status",
Fifteen Century Studies
, 9 (1984), pp. 220-221.
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"Collyweston",
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire, Volume 6, Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire
, London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1984, p. 33
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Maddy Baillie,
"Collyweston Palace uncovered by local history society",
Stamford Mercury
, 18 November 2023
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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.
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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.
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Michael K. Jones & Malcolm G. Underwood,
The King's Mother: Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby
(Cambridge, 1992),
The King's Mother
, p. 158.
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Susan Powell, "Textiles and Dress in the Household Papers of Margaret Beaufort",
Medieval Clothing and Textiles
, 11 (Boydell, 2015), pp. 145-8.
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Michael K. Jones & Malcolm G. Underwood,
The King's Mother
(Cambridge, 1992), p. 114.
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Michael Heaney,
The Ancient English Morris Dance
(Oxford:Archaeopress, 2023), p. 14.
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Maria Hayward
,
Dress at the Court of Henry VIII
(Maney, 2007), pp. 84-86.
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O Muirithe, Diarmaid
(2011).
Words We Don't Use (Much Anymore)
. Dublin: Gill Books.
ISBN
978-0-7171-4810-3
.
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"galley-west"
.
Merriam-Webster
.
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