Blenheim Palace

Visit the splendour of Blenheim Palace

Half Day
London
Walking

What

What does the tour involve?

Blenheim is the only non-royal palace in the country. It is the ancestral home of the Churchill family, and is a UNESCO World Heritage site. 2024 marks the 150th anniversary of Winston’s birth there. It is also the place he proposed to Clementine in its wondrous gardens, which are all part of this fantastic trip. Blenheim was given to Churchill’s ancestor after his stunning battle win at Blenheim in 1704.It is stupendous in its opulence, arguably outstripping Buckingham, Windsor or even Kensington Palaces. Sarah Churchill, the Duke’s wife, was made famous in The Favourite with her dalliance with Queen Anne and spared nothing when building and dressing it.t is about 20 minutes from Oxford, and a day trip can be completed with a pub lunch at one of the villages between Oxford and Blenheim. It takes just over 2 hours for both places from central London

Where

What will I see?

The beautiful honey coloured stonework and the dramatic exterior, built to impress
The gilded State Rooms and the priceless collections of porcelain and artworks set within them
The famous Marlborough Tapestries ( the ‘Victories Series’) in the Green Writing Room
The Long Library with its walls lined by more than 10,000 books, many of them hundreds of years old and of great historic significance.
The Temple of Diana where Churchill proposed to Clementine in the 150 acres of Formal Gardens
The beautiful English Cotswold countryside around the Palace and around Oxford.