Apethorpe (pronounced App-thorp) [1] [2] is a village, civil parish, [3] former manor and ecclesiastical parish in Northamptonshire, England (in the North Northamptonshire district), situated 11 miles west of the City of Peterborough.

Apethorpe Palace (pronounced App-thorp), [1] [2] formerly known as "Apethorpe Hall", is a Grade I listed [3] country house, dating to the 15th century, close to Apethorpe, Northamptonshire. It was a "favourite royal residence" for James I. [4]

Among England’s greatest stately homes, Apethorpe Palace is a private residence open during July and August for pre-booked tours only. Apethorpe Palace was owned by Elizabeth I; she inherited the site from Henry VIII. The palace became a …

Apethorpe is a beautiful conservation village situated in North Northamptonshire. Many of the limestone cottages and houses are grade II listed. The village is recorded in the Domesday Book as Patorp and was, for many years, the seat of the Earls of Westmoreland.

Apethorpe is a parish of 723 hectares in Rockingham Forest, the village lying near Willow Brook. It incorporates the former village of Hale, mentioned in Domesday Book and deserted as a result of the Black Death (RCHM, Northants.

Apethorpe is a small village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire. It is located about 6 miles north of the town of Oundle and 11 miles west of Peterborough. Apethorpe is best known for Apethorpe Palace, a Grade I listed country house dating to the 15th century.

Among England’s greatest country houses, Apethorpe Palace holds a particularly important place in English history because of its ownership by, and role in, entertaining Tudor and Stuart monarchs. Elizabeth I once owned the building, which she had inherited from Henry VIII.

Welcome to Apethorpe, the Jacobean Royal Residence Baron and Baroness Pfetten welcome you to explore the last surviving Jacobean Royal Residence. Gardens and State Rooms are routinely opened to the public for summer guided tours managed by English Heritage.

Apethorpe, a parish in Northamptonshire, on an affluent of the river Nen, 5 miles SW of Wansford, under which it has a post office; money order and telegraph office, King's Cliffe. Acreage, 1784; population of the civil parish, 175; of the ecclesiastical, with Woodnewton, 524.

Apethorpe was among the last of the houses acquired by Henry VIII, purchased from Lord Mountjoy in 1543. It was heavily rebuilt in the later sixteenth century and little is known of the Henrician house, but current nomenclature refers to the structure as Apethorpe Palace.