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Blenheim Palace
- Blenheim Palace (/ ˈblɛnɪm / BLEN-im) 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.
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Blenheim Palace ( / ˈblɛnɪm / 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] One of England's largest houses, it was built between 1705 and 1722, and designated a UNESCO World ...
Marlborough Castle, locally known and recorded in historical documents as The Mound, was an 11th-century royal castle located in the civil parish of Marlborough, a market town in the English county of Wiltshire, on the Old Bath Road, the old main road from London to Bath (grid reference).
Mar 22, 2021 · About Blenheim Palace. Blenheim Palace is a vast 18th century palace that has been the seat of the Dukes of Marlborough for 300 years. Visitors are invited to explore its stunning interiors and exhibitions detailing the history of some of its most eminent inhabitants.
- Lily Johnson
Mar 3, 2015 · Larger than both Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, Blenheim has been the seat of the Dukes of Marlborough since the 1720s and home too to the Churchill (or Spencer-Churchill) family: Sir Winston Churchill was born there.
- Tatler
Blenheim Palace is an 18th-century aristocratic residence built in the eclectic style of the English Romantic movement. The first Duke of Marlborough was given this former royal property by Queen Anne, after his victory over the French at Blenheim in 1704.
Jun 5, 2022 · Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire — the seat of the Duke of Marlborough — is one of the outstanding palaces of Baroque Europe, and was planned as both a residence and national monument. John Goodall revisits this extraordinary building; photographs by Will Pryce for Country Life.
May 11, 2020 · In his multi-volume biography of his ancestor John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough, published from 1933 to 1938 as Marlborough: His Life and Times, Winston Churchill described the creation of the ancestral seat.
