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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 ]
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 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 .
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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, close to Woodstock, was designed and partly built by the architect John Vanbrugh for John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, after he had won the battle of Blenheim. The gardens, which can be visited, were designed by the landscape gardener "Capability" Brown, who planted the trees in the battle formation of the victorious army.