Picture story: autumnal splendour at Blenheim Palace

‘Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’ – Keats’ famous words on autumn perfectly describe Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, where a carpet of colour is drawing in thousands of visitors every week, keen to explore the Capability Brown designed Parkland. Autumn was always seen by Brown as a key time for Britain’s Greatest Palace and Estate to be seen in all its glory.

Blenheim Estate is home to a myriad wildlife including egrets, bats (12 of the UK’s 17 resident species) and the greatest number of ancient oak trees anywhere in Europe.

These stunning images of the UNESCO World Heritage Site were captured by Pete Seaward.

 

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About Blenheim Palace

Home to the Dukes of Marlborough since 1705, Blenheim Palace was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987.

Set in over 2,000 acres of ‘Capability’ Brown landscaped parkland and designed by Vanbrugh in the Baroque style, it was financed by Queen Anne, on behalf of a grateful nation, following the first Duke of Marlborough’s triumph over the French in the War of the Spanish Succession.

Today it houses one of the most important and extensive collections in Europe, which includes portraits, furniture, sculpture and tapestries.

Blenheim Palace is also the birthplace of one of Britain’s most famous leaders, Sir Winston Churchill, and it was his father who described the vista on entering the Estate from the village of Woodstock as the ‘finest view in England’.