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  1. London, England, Europe. Richmond, Kew & Hampton Court. Just off Richmond Green, the attractive remains of Richmond Palace – the main entrance and red-brick gatehouse – date to 1501. Henry VII’s arms are visible above the main gate: the monarch built the Tudor additions to the edifice, although the palace had been in use as a royal ...

    • Domesday to Henry VII
    • A Period of Splendor
    • Palace of The Forgotten Queens
    • The End of The Palace

    The first noted history of the site that was to become Richmond Palace was in the Domesday book. The manor of Shene (later spelt Sheen) was part of the royal manor of Kingston; it was owned by Otto de Grandson, a knight from savoy who worked for the English crown and Edward I. Upon Edward’s death, de Grandson left England and the manor reverted to ...

    We now come to a period of growth and splendor under the control of Henry Tudor. Henry went to great efforts and expense (catalogue reference: E 101/414/6, f.3) to raise a palace that would be the rival of any in Europe, a crowning achievement in his new kingdom. As the work was ongoing, however, disaster struck once more: while the court was there...

    The next period of its history was a convoluted one, with many residents walking its halls. It seems Henry VIII did not share his father’s love for the palace and instead took Hampton Court to be his home. He passed Richmond off to Wolsey, and once Wolsey fell from power it became the ‘Palace of forgotten queens’ where Henry would hide his past con...

    We come now to the greatest tragedy to fall on the most beautiful of palaces: Oliver Cromwell. After the execution of Charles I it did not take long for the commonwealth to strip the palace of everything of worth, right down to the stone from which it was built, for profit and to destroy a symbol of the monarchy they had come to hate. This was the ...

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  3. Richmond Palace Map - Building - Richmond upon Thames, England, UK. UK. England. Greater London. Richmond upon Thames. Richmond Palace was a royal residence on the River Thames in England which stood in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

  4. Richmond Palace was a Tudor royal residence on the River Thames in England which stood in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Situated in what was then rural Surrey, it lay upstream and on the opposite bank from the Palace of Westminster, which was located nine miles (14 km) to the north-east.

  5. Oct 24, 2023 · Richmond Palace is located in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, just a short train ride from central London. To get there, take the District line to Richmond Station, and then it’s about a 10-minute walk through beautiful greenery to the palace gatehouse.

  6. Nov 28, 2022 · Unfortunately, the majority of this castle was destroyed, or at the very least badly damaged, by a great fire at Christmas of 1497. Much of the former Sheen Palace had been constructed in wood and was engulfed in flames soon after the fire started. Upon rebuilding, the entire area, including the nearby town of Sheen, was renamed Richmond.

  7. Richmond Castle is spectacularly sited above the cliff-lined valley of the River Swale. The 12th-century keep, symbolising the power and strength of its builder, Duke Conan of Brittany, dominates the surviving remains. Much of the 11th-century curtain wall that surrounded the castle enclosure survives, together with many of the castle’s main ...

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