Castle
Blenheim Palace
Baroque ducal palace set in vast landscaped parkland, birthplace of a famous English apple variety.
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Location
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About this audio guide
This guide to Blenheim Palace near Oxford leaves the state rooms behind for a story about appetite, starting around seventeen forty with a Woodstock man named George Kempster and a seedling by the park wall. It follows a Worcestershire nurseryman, a request put to the Duke of Marlborough, and the crowds an old account says came to stare. Best heard walking the grounds near the estate's long boundary walls.
This audio guide was created using AI.