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Blenheim Palace, looking across the east facade's Italian garden to the orangery, which both adorns and disguises the walls of the domestic east court. The East gate is seen rising above. Blenheim Palace Park and gardens in 1835. Blenheim sits in the centre of a large undulating park, a classic example of the English landscape garden movement ...
On 13 August 1704 the Battle of Blenheim (German: Schlacht von Höchstädt) was fought in the vicinity, having decisive importance on the War of the Spanish Succession. Blenheim Palace in England and Blenheim, the most populous town in the region of Marlborough, were named in memory of the battle, and thus ultimately after Blindheim. [3]
The parish of St Martin's includes Blenheim Palace, the family seat of the dukes of Marlborough. Members of the Spencer-Churchill family are interred in St Martin's parish churchyard at Bladon. With the exception of the 10th Duke and his first wife, the dukes and duchesses of Marlborough are buried in the Blenheim Palace's chapel.
Richmond Palace – a royal residence from 1497 until 1649, now ruined; Bridewell Palace – a royal residence from 1515 until 1523, now demolished. [2] Palace of Placentia – Also known as Greenwich Palace, a royal residence from 1447 until 1660, when it was demolished; Palace of Beaulieu – a royal residence from 1515 until 1573
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 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. In 2001 it had a population of 78. [2]
Blenheim (/ ˈ b l ɛ n ɪ m / BLEN-im) is the English name of Blindheim, a village in Bavaria, Germany, which was the site of the Battle of Blenheim in 1704. Almost all places and other things called Blenheim are named directly or indirectly in honour of the battle.
The Glyme is dammed at Cleveley, Kiddington, Glympton and Blenheim. At Blenheim, "Capability" Brown used the river to form the lake in front of Blenheim Palace. The upper part of the Glyme Valley around the river's headwaters is a Site of Special Scientific Interest. [1] The Glyme Valley Way footpath follows almost the entire course of the river.
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