Blenheim Park Circular

Blenheim Park is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the outskirts of Woodstock in Oxfordshire. It is a 554 acres and occupies most of the grounds of Blenheim Palace. The park was once a twelfth-century deer park. It now boasts some of the best areas of pasture and oak woodland in the country. The large lakes were created in the eighteenth century, and they are regionally important for breeding and wintering birds. Blenheim Palace is a monumental country house and is the principal residence of the Dukes of Marlborough, and the only non-royal, non-episcopal country house in England to have the title of palace. It is one of England's largest houses and was built between 1705 and 1722. In 1987 it was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. There is a lot of history concerning this palace and the grounds but of notable importance is the fact that it was the birthplace and ancestral home of the Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.