Blenheim Palace

One of the side facades of Blenheim Palace, 1715

Blenheim Palace is a large and monumental country house situated in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England. The Palace, one of England's greatest houses in every sense of the word, was built between 1705 and circa 1722. The palace today remains the home of the Dukes of Marlborough.

Year	Decision	Comments
1987	Inscribed	Reasons for inscription

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I visited Blenheim last year with my wife and thoroughly enjoyed the day out. The building and the contents made the whole experience one of the best palaces I've seen. The grounds and gardens are fantastic. This linked the fabulous history of the Churchill family make this an experince not to miss.

Ian Cade (England):

Blenheim Palace is the quintessential English stately home, with vast landscaped grounds and a central building dripping with extravagance. I must admit palaces bore me rigid as they remind me of school trips when I was younger, but this was a pleasant experience and the amount of art and antiques on display was impressive. There was also a strong link between the elites of France and Germany which was nice to see a more Europe wide history on display.
The entrance fee was a little steep Ł10 (€14) and you are not allowed to take photos inside the Palace, but you do have the chance to have a guided tour which is very informative if a touch pompous, in a way that only the English can be! They make a lot of the connections to Winston Churchill, but it turns out he was only born here and never lived here.
The grounds are very large, they were designed by Capability Brown who was the most sought after landscape designer at the time, and the waterfalls are extremely nice. There is also a little pleasure garden replete with a maze, putting green, model village and miniature train (English to the very core!).
Blenheim is just outside of Oxford which is a fantastic city to visit for its University and associated buildings, (busses run to the Palace from the central bus station), The surrounding area of the Cotswolds is what most people think of when they dream of England!
This is perhaps the best sight to visit if you want to get the quintessential English experience

Emilee-Elizabeth Mancher (U.S.A):
Hi my name is Emilee-Elizabeth and I took my family to the Blenheim Palace and we all loved it. It had great facilities it as really well maintained and the transport and entry prices were reasonable. My husband Dylan thought it was great, p.s he loved the food!
Lots of Love,
Emilee-Elizabeth mancher
& the rest of the Mancher family( Eliza, Zara, Ben, Katie, Gemma, Aaron, Mary-Kate & Josh)

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