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Oatlands Palace is a former Tudor and Stuart royal palace which took the place of the former manor of the village of Oatlands near Weybridge, Surrey. Little remains of the original building, so excavations of the palace took place in 1964 to rediscover its extent.
Oatlands Palace. Few people have heard of Oatlands Palace. After the Restoration of 1660 it was demolished so thoroughly that nothing remained other than a few garden walls. Today its site is covered by a housing estate. But in the sixteenth and early seventeenth century Oatlands was as well known as a royal palace as Hampton Court.
Elmbridge's Lost Tudor Palace. This online exhibition explores the history of Oatlands Palace through the ages. This large site has witnessed significant periods of history as a royal palace and a country home, before being demolished in the 1600s.
While not as famous as some of the other royal residences, Oatlands Palace, on the bank of the River Thames in Surrey, was an important place in the Tudor period. The palace was built by King Henry VIII for his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, and it stood on the site of an old medieval manor.
Oatlands Palace History. The name Oatlands comes from the owners of the land, who in the thirteenth century was Robert de Ottelond and probably refers to the crop of oats grown in the area. Henry VIII purchased Hampton Court from Cardinal Wolsey, who then built a palace in Esher on land he had acquired. Henry created a vast hunting estate that ...
Oatlands Palace: A Royal Tudor Retreat. U nusually, the evidence for Catherine Howard’s presence at Oatlands Palace (often referred to in contemporary texts as ‘Otelands’) does not come from the usual flurry of letters that one might expect, dating to the summer of her marriage to Henry VIII.
The monument includes the main courtyards and associated buildings of Oatlands Palace, situated on the southern bank of the River Thames at Weybridge, on the south western outskirts of modern metropolitan London.