Blenheim Palace, residence near Woodstock, Oxfordshire, built (1705) by a grateful English Parliament as a national gift to John Churchill, the first duke of Marlborough, for his victory in Germany in 1704 over the Fench and Bavarians at the Battle of Blenheim during the War of the Spanish Succession.
The palace was designed by Sir John Vanbrugh and is regarded as the finest example of truly Baroque architecture in Great Britain.
In the early 18th century Queen Anne´s gardener Henry Wise designed the grounds in the formal style of André Le Nôtre´s famed gardens for Vaux-le-Vicomte and Versailles in France. Little remains of Wise´s landscaping for tastes changed in the middle of the 18th century and Lancelot Brown was asked to redesign the grounds in his pastoral style of informal or seemingly natural landscapes of woods, lawns, and waterways.
Sir Winston Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace.
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