{"id":627211,"date":"2026-06-08T08:25:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T08:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/627211\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T08:25:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T08:25:24","slug":"possible-tudor-tunnels-discovered-under-chelmsford-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/627211\/","title":{"rendered":"Possible Tudor tunnels discovered under Chelmsford school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Students say the accidental discovery of possible Tudor tunnels under their school has been inspiring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">New Hall School in Chelmsford was built on the grounds of King Henry VIII&#8217;s Tudor Palace of Beaulieu, an estate he acquired from wife Anne Boleyn&#8217;s family in 1517. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While repairing a nearby ha-ha, which is a long ditch used to contain livestock, workers found the entrance to a tunnel, along with pottery, bones, glass bottles and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">History student Florian, 17, said: &#8220;It really does never cease to amaze you the amount of history and the sort of richness of that history that we have here.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Students say the accidental discovery of possible Tudor tunnels under their school has been inspiring. New Hall School&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-627211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}