Last updated on 10 June 09

Blenheim Palace Garden

5.0/5 (2 ratings)

Photograph © Oxford Botanica/Adam Hodge
Photograph © Oxford Botanica/Adam Hodge
Photograph © Oxford Botanica/Adam Hodge
Photograph © Oxford Botanica/Adam Hodge
Photograph © Gardenvisit.com
Photograph © Gardenvisit.com
Photograph © Blenheim Palace
Photograph © Blenheim Palace
Photograph © Blenheim Palace

Gardenvisit Editorial

An eighteenth century house and park with a nineteenth century garden. The palace, designed by Vanbrugh c1705, was the nation's reward to the first Duke of Marlborough for his victories over Louis XIV. Henry Wise designed the garden, in an Anglo-Dutch Baroque manner with a military cast. It had mock fortifications and regimented parterres. The first Duke died in 1722. During the 1720s his wife, Sarah, canalised the River Glyme and had a triumphal bridge errected. In 1764, the 4th Duke commissioned Lancelot Brown, then at the apogee of his fame. Brown transformed the park by making the canal into a serpentine lake. He also naturalised the woods, designed a cascade and placed clumps in strategic positions. During the 1930s, the 9th Duke replanted a 'military' avenue east of the palace and commissioned Achille Duchêne to design a fine water parterre, west of the palace.

Address - Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, OX20 1PX
Opening times - Mid-March to 31st October. Daily. Open 10.30am to 5.30pm. Park open all year, daily except 25th December, from 9am to dusk.
Admission - Adults Palace and Gardens £14.00, Gardens only £9.00
Website - Visit the Blenheim Palace Garden website

Designers and Influences

This garden has been designed and influenced by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, Henry Wise, Achille Duchene (Duchesne)

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Recent Reviews

5 months ago pete said
Blenheim is magnificent. You have arguably the finest house in England, a rose garden, a formal garden, a water garden and a lovely lake.

That said I can't fall in love with it as the place is just full of tourists

(5.0/5)
about 1 year ago Adam Hodge said
This place has such a lot to see ...the amazing Park in all its Brownian glory, the formal gardens, the Rose gardens, the even newer gardens[very 90's in style] in the trees ,south east of the Palace and the walk running directly south down to the Cascades.
The scale and romantic grandeur of the place is wonderful.take time to just soak it all in.

(5.0/5)

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