River Wey & Navigations : Photo-file on Woking Palace

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The new Palace consisted of the King's Hall providing privacy for the king and an impressive complex of buildings including the Queen's Apartments, a chapel and structures housing the royal household during royal visits.

The Palace was set in a park of some 40 acres alongside the River Wey. There were two bowling alleys "for the king to boulle in", one in the King's Garden and another in the Orchard.

After Henry VIII's death Woking Palace was less used by royalty and in the 1620s was abandoned having fallen into disrepair. As a useful source of building materials the site was systematically stripped over ensuing centuries leaving just the ruins that are left today. Repairs have been made in modern times to try and prevent further decay to the Tudor brickwork of the remaining three foot thick (0.91m) walls of the King's Hall and the adjoining older sarsen stone vault.

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	#9249/06 ©2006			The new Palace consisted of the King's Hall providing privacy for the king and an impressive complex of buildings including the Queen's Apartments, a chapel and structures housing the royal household during royal visits. The Palace was set in a park of some 40 acres alongside the River Wey. There were two bowling alleys "for the king to boulle in", one in the King's Garden and another in the Orchard.
	#9236/06 ©2006 After Henry VIII's death Woking Palace was less used by royalty and in the 1620s was abandoned having fallen into disrepair. As a useful source of building materials the site was systematically stripped over ensuing centuries leaving just the ruins that are left today. Repairs have been made in modern times to try and prevent further decay to the Tudor brickwork of the remaining three foot thick (0.91m) walls of the King's Hall and the adjoining older sarsen stone vault.		#9277/06 ; 9276/06 ; 9278/06 ©2006 MORE PICTURES
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