The More (also known as the Manor of the More) was a 16th-century palace in the parish of Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, England, where Catherine of Aragon lived after the annulment of her marriage to Henry VIII.
[2] In 1527, the French ambassador, Jean du Bellay, thought the house more splendid than Hampton Court.
The house was redecorated by the painter John Hethe with the Queen's badges (the ciphers of Anne Boleyn) in 1534.
Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford, described her building and improvements at Moor Park in a letter to a friend: "...my works at the More, where I have been a patcher this summer, and I am still adding some trifles of pleasure to that place I am so much in love with, as, if I were so fond of any man, I were in hard case.
It is currently buried under a metre of imported top soil placed to provide a level playing field for Northwood Preparatory School, renamed Merchant Taylors' Prep, which lies immediately to the east.
[9] Two stone pillars with Renaissance period carvings were discovered while scrub was being cleared in the school grounds in 2010.