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The lane that divided the royal palace from the friary Henry VII founded beside it.
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Friars Lane runs from the south-west corner of Richmond Green down towards the towpath, between walls and old houses, and it is a boundary as much as a street: it marks approximately where the palace grounds ended and the grounds of the friary began. Henry VII founded a house of Observant Friars beside his new palace in 1501, and Henry VIII dissolved it in 1534, so the institution the lane is named for lasted a little over thirty years and has been gone for nearly five hundred. The name outlived the friars, the palace and the Tudors, and it is the only thing left above ground to say they were here.
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