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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, 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 ...
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Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 15:29, 2 March 2011: 379 × 640 (31 KB): GeographBot == {{int:filedesc}} == {{Information |description={{en|1=The Column of Victory, Blenheim Palace Blenheim Palace is the only non-episcopal country house in England to hold the title "palace" and is one of England's largest houses.
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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 .
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]