The palace was built between 1705 and 1722, and it is massive. We spent the morning visiting this enormous palace as well as the beautiful gardens.
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Before visiting the palace, we stopped to see Winston Churchill’s grave site at The Church of St. Martin Bladon.
Handmade pew pillow
Entrance to Blenheim Palace
We first made our way behind the palace to see the gardens, and then walk the trails surrounding the massive estate.
We saw an amazing collection of trees on the property.
This is just a fraction of the ducks here. I have never seen so many ducks in one place in all my life!
We returned to see more of the gardens and tour the palace.This model, constructed in 1990 with 100,000 matchsticks was made by Jean Donadel of Amiens, France. He had never visited, basing his work entirely on photographs.
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