At Blenheim Palace, Woodstock

We spent part of Saturday at Blenheim Palace, near Oxford. Billed as one of the top three most beautiful private residences (don't know which are the other two) and the only non-royal residence to be granted the title of 'Palace', the building is set in over 2000 acres of parkland and countryside.

Entry is a very steep £16.50 and includes the palace, gardens and parks. Just for the parks and gardens is £9.50. The charges might be worth it (not!) on a sunny day, but Saturday was wet and very miserable. So bad that we took very few pictures.

Here are some that we did take:

A partial view of the imposing entrance

In the Marlborough gardens : A Model Village

In the Marlborough gardens : giant games

The butterfly garden. Quite a few butterflies, but strangely, not one was moving. Were they props?