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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.
Woodstock is a market town and civil parish, 8 miles (13 km) north-west of Oxford in West Oxfordshire in the county of Oxfordshire, England. The 2021 census recorded a parish population of 3,521, [1] up from the previous 3,100 in 2011. [2] Blenheim Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is next to Woodstock, in the parish of Blenheim.
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]
English: Winston at Palace Station, Blenheim Park Railway, Woodstock. Winston resembles a steam locomotive, but is an 0-6-0 diesel hydraulic with a steam locomotive outline. Built in 2013, Winston is the main locomotive in use on the 381mm (15 inch) gauge Blenheim Park Railway miniature railway in the grounds of Blenheim Palace.
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 .
Botley West is a proposed £800m solar farm, covering about 1,000 hectares (2,471 acres) across three areas - north of Woodstock, west of Kidlington and west of Botley.
According to local tales, "Rosamund's bower" (probably an early version of the labyrinth) was demolished when Blenheim Palace was built. [5] Today, Fair Rosamund's Well ( 51°50′42″N 1°22′04″W / 51.845070°N 1.3677058°W / 51.845070; -1.3677058 ) is a paved spring in the park of Blenheim Palace in Woodstock , Oxfordshire
Blenheim & Woodstock was a railway station constructed in the neoclassical style which served the town of Woodstock and Blenheim Palace in the English county of Oxfordshire.The station, as well as the line, was constructed by the Duke of Marlborough [1] and was privately run until 1897 when it became part of the Great Western Railway.