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Blenheim Park is a 224.3-hectare (554-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in the civil parish of Blenheim, in the West Oxfordshire district, in Oxfordshire, England, on the outskirts of Woodstock. [1] [2] It occupies most of the grounds of Blenheim Palace. The park was once an Anglo-Saxon chase and then a twelfth-century deer park.
Blenheim Palace (/ ˈ b l ɛ n ɪ m / BLEN-im [1]) is a country house in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England. It is the seat of the Dukes of Marlborough . Originally called Blenheim Castle, it has been known as Blenheim Palace since the 19th century. [ 2 ]
The facilities at The Pleasure Gardens include a maze, a plant centre, a cafeteria, the popular butterfly house, and the main car park for visitors. The railway was adapted to provide an actual transport facility between the Pleasure Gardens and Blenheim Palace itself, and during the tourist season trains run in each direction every half-hour. [3]
The palace survived until the Tang dynasty, when it was burnt down by marauding invaders en route to the Tang capital, Chang'an. It was the largest palace complex ever built on Earth, [26] covering 4.8 square kilometres (1.9 sq mi), which is 6.7 times the size of the current Forbidden City, or 11 times the size of the Vatican City.
Blenheim is a civil parish in the West Oxfordshire district, in Oxfordshire, England, about 7 miles (11 km) north of Oxford. [1] At its edge is Blenheim Palace , which is the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill and the ancestral home of the Dukes of Marlborough .
Ahead of the publication of Blenheim, Lady Henrietta, an interior decorator, spoke with T&C about growing up in a palace, how her great-grandmother Consuelo Vanderbilt saved Blenheim, and what it ...
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The River Glyme at Glympton The River Glyme in the grounds of Kiddington Hall. The River Glyme is a river in Oxfordshire, England.It is a tributary of the River Evenlode.It rises about 1 mile (1.6 km) east of Chipping Norton, and flows southeast past Old Chalford, Enstone, Kiddington, Glympton and Wootton, Woodstock and through Blenheim Park.