BLENHEIM PALACE & OXFORD

 
Blenheim: three acres of palace; 600 rooms; 'the longest  corridor in Europe'; 2,500 acres of park; a 390-foot bridge over the vast lake; 180 servants; Winston Churchill's birthplace. King George III conceding, "we have nothing to equal this." Oxford: "towery city and branchy between towers; cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmed, lark-charmed, rook-racked, river-rounded"; town and gown and dreaming spires; poets and punting; kings, wits, celebrated eccentrics, Brideshead Revisited, Inspector Morse, and, yes, American presidents who didn't inhale: "there's no other place like it in the world, it is a despair to see such a place and ever to leave it". And the thing is, what I've written above is just the scorecard. The reality melts it. Enough said? Not enough? Okay, in that case, click here.
 
 
 In the Summer 2013 London Walks programme –
which kicks in on May 1st and runs through October 31st –
we go to Blenheim Palace & Oxford on 
 
Saturday, May 18
 
Saturday, July 27
 
Saturday, October 26 (for Horrible Happenings at Halloween)!
 
Meet Richard  at 9.30 am by the main ticket office –
it's right by Platform One –
of Paddington Railway   Station.
 
 Tariff  £45

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