{"id":9526,"date":"2023-12-15T20:12:12","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T20:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/visiting-blenheim-palace-marlborough-maze\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T10:09:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T10:09:35","slug":"visiting-blenheim-palace-marlborough-maze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/visiting-blenheim-palace-marlborough-maze\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Blenheim Palace: The Grand Palace Near Oxford"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bit of advice, when you visit Blenheim palace, pack your walking shoes!<\/p>\n

I wish I knew this in advance (not that I packed an extra pair of shoes anyway) but boy does your feet get a serious workout here!<\/p>\n

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Blenheim Palace is so conveniently close to Oxford city centre that when you find yourself visiting Oxford<\/a>, its well worth popping in to see Blenheim Palace – as we decided to at the last minute in Oxford<\/a> before heading off to our next stop.<\/p>\n

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Blenheim Palace<\/a> is as grand as it sounds and spans acres and acres of land, with absolutely stunning gardens and grounds to boot. Visiting reminded me of Downton Abbey and I just couldn\u2019t get the theme song out of my head the entire time we were there (even more frustrating as the song had no words so I roamed the ground humming out of tune all afternoon).<\/p>\n

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Inside the palace, you get a tour taking you through all the different family rooms and even to the room Winston Churchill was born in \u2013 which bizarrely had locks of his hair (from when he was around 5 years old \u2013 he\u2019s a red head, as it turns) framed in the room.<\/p>\n

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Walking through the palace leads you to one grand room after the other! It\u2019s absolutely incredible and a true showcase of British architectural and design splendour.<\/p>\n

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Even their family library is OTT and you can probably see why the whole Downton Abbey theme song was stuck in my head while we were here.<\/p>\n

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I mean, look at the \u2018family chapel\u2019 \u2013 humongous!!<\/p>\n

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Outside the palace are the gardens, which are perfect for a picnic (which we didn\u2019t pack) and also particularly great for a good old run around!<\/p>\n

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When we first arrived, we\u2019d noticed on the map that there was a maze here (the Marlborough maze) and I can\u2019t remember properly being in a maze so I figured I had to check this out. What I didn\u2019t count on was how far away from the palace the maze was and after walking for what felt like hours (and getting lost along the way), we finally found the maze (along with other sights and gardens).<\/p>\n

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By the way, if you wanna head over to the maze, you\u2019re better off getting back into your car and driving over to the entrance of the maze rather than walking to it.<\/p>\n

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By the time we got to the maze, I was starving and it was one of those moments where you just think to yourself \u201cLet\u2019s do this quickly so I can get some food\u2026\u201d<\/em> except I totally under-estimated the maze. The photos made it look so tame and so easy yet somehow, we managed to get well and truly lost in the maze. (You can only imagine how much my tummy was starting to rumble from hunger pangs by this point).<\/p>\n

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I also always assumed that if I got lost in a maze, I\u2019d just jump up high and try to figure things out that way. Turns out, you can do that here and you can\u2019t even cheat by just walking through the hedges (they\u2019re far too thick for this)\u2026 and so we carried on and on until we finally made it to the middle of the maze, which has a platform, allowing up to try to calculate the fastest way outta there and get closer to finding food (oh, also the caf\u00e9 here was closed so there wasn\u2019t even the chance to get a quick snack here either).<\/p>\n

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Okay, enough about food, or the lack thereof!<\/p>\n

We finally broke free of the maze and headed off straight to Cambridge<\/a>, where thankfully, I\u2019d managed to get my Alumni card sent to my college (instead of rushing to pick it up by the 5.30pm Friday deadline<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Card picked up and hotel checked into, we headed straight for dinner which came in the form of a delicious steak and another dessert favourite \u2013 sticky toffee pudding (my first proper dessert love).<\/p>\n

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The rest of the evening was spent trying out different microbrewery ales and resting my weary feet in preparation for the sights of my old home and alma mater of Cambridge!<\/p>\n

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12 Very Best Things To Do In Oxford, England<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n