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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.
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.
There is also an SSSI at Collyweston Great Wood.
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. In the late sixteenth century, the place gave its name to the manner of wearing the mandilion 'Colley-Weston-ward' for unknown reasons.
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,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. who had served Margaret Beaufort as a teenager.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.Michael K. Jones & Malcolm G. Underwood, The King's Mother: Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby (Cambridge, 1992), p. 158.
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.Susan Powell, "Textiles and Dress in the Household Papers of Margaret Beaufort", Medieval Clothing and Textiles, 11 (Boydell, 2015), pp. 145-8. 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,Michael K. Jones & Malcolm G. Underwood, The King's Mother (Cambridge, 1992), p. 114. and six Spanish dancers performed a morris dance.Michael Heaney, The Ancient English Morris Dance (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023), p. 14.
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.David Cressy, Travesties and Transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England: Tales of Discord and Dissension (Oxford, 2000), p. 175. 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".Maria Hayward, Dress at the Court of Henry VIII (Maney, 2007), pp. 84-86.
Anthony Dryland, the bailie and keeper of Collyweston, was a member of the household of Henry FitzRoy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset,John Gough Nichols, "Memoir of Henry FitzRoy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset", Camden Miscellany, 3 (London, 1855), p. lxx. Letters and Papers Henry VIII, 11 (London, 1888), p. 72 no. 164 (2). and the Duke lived at Collyweston from 1531 to 1536.Maria Hayward, Dress at the Court of King Henry VIII (Maney, 2007), p. 305. Henry VIII gave the palace to Anne Boleyn in 1536. The Statutes of the Realm, 3 (Dawsons reprint, 1963), p. 651. In 1550, Edward VI granted the manor to his sister Elizabeth I.Howard Colvin, The History of the King's Works, 4:2 (London: HMSO, 1982), p. 67.
In 1566, the palace was extensively repaired for Elizabeth I.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. New windows for the Queen's lodging were glazed with the royal arms and badges. A new timber banqueting house was built.Howard Colvin, The History of the King's Works, 4:2 (London: HMSO, 1982), p. 67. Elizabeth I came to Collyweston on her progress on 29 June.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. According to Dominique Bourgoing, on 25 September 1586, Mary, Queen of Scots, travelled past the chasteau Collunwaston on her way to Fotheringhay.William Kelly, Royal Progresses and Visits to Leicester (Leicester: Samuel Clarke, p. 311.
Charles I granted the manor to a Scottish courtier of James VI and I, Patrick Maule.Howard Colvin, The History of the King's Works, 4:2 (London: HMSO, 1982), p. 67. The building was dismantled in about 1640, leaving little trace. In 2023, its location was confirmed using ground-penetrating radar to find the main cluster of buildings, and the footings of walls were unearthed.Maddy Baillie, "Collyweston Palace uncovered by local history society", Stamford Mercury, 18 November 2023
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