When Nimi and Louis Cooper started looking for a new family home, they knew they wanted to remain in their hometown.
As well as being home to Britain’s Greatest Palace, our Estate is also a great place to discover rich natural heritage.
We are inviting people to join a green recycling scheme and drop off their used Christmas Trees once the festive holidays are over.
The use of our new robot dogs will help us to gather data on the health and biodiversity of our Estate
We are giving people the unique opportunity to give a conscious gift this Christmas and help the environment by having a tree planted on our UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Our Estate is celebrating National Tree Week (26th November – 4th December) by encouraging more visitors to join our epic tree planting scheme across our Oxfordshire Estate.
Gardeners on our Estate in Oxfordshire are ditching their mowers and allowing nature to lead the way.
Our Estate has joined forces with food producers Worthy Earth to create a flourishing regenerative kitchen garden within its historic Walled Garden.
A colony of wild honeybees has been rescued after being discovered inside a giant fallen oak tree branch on our Estate.
School children from across the south are joining our epic tree-planting project to create nine new woodlands on our Estate.
Our shepherds are asking dog owners to act responsibly while visiting our estate in the run up to lambing season.
We are joining forces with Rowse Honey on a major conservation project to create a sustainable nectar source for local wild bees and other pollinators, as well as introducing new habitats for insects and birds, in and around our Oxfordshire estate.
Our rural team has completed planting the first of nine new woodlands on our Oxfordshire Estate.
We are looking to recruit a new Head Gardener – the first time the role has become vacant in 40 years.
Our commitment to create nine new woodlands and plant more than 270,000 trees has been hailed as a ‘shining example’ by the Forestry Commission.
We have begun work on a new solar park on former agricultural land northeast of Woodstock.
The first of 270,000 trees are being planted on our Estate as part of an ‘unprecedented’ project, in partnership with Morgan Sindall Group plc, the construction and regeneration group, to create nine new woodlands.
More than 100 trees have been snapped in two after a tornado ripped through Burleigh Wood in Bladon on Halloween.
We've joined forces with the Environment Agency, Thames Water and the Evenlode Catchment Partnership in a unique partnership to help restore one of Oxfordshire’s most important floodplains.
Blenheim Estate Homes and West Oxfordshire District Council have been nominated as finalists in The Public/Private Partnership Award category of 2021’s Estate Gazette Awards.
The Palace is used to welcoming royalty, but when a queen bee inadvertently led her colony to swarm on a stone plinth outside the Duke of Marlborough’s private entrance it was decided she needed to be gently escorted off the premises.
We are looking to recruit a shepherd to help care for our 1,000-strong flock of sheep, as well as our collection of rare breed British white cattle .
Our Palace Archivist has re-discovered a 200-year-old guide revealing the lost treasures of one of Britain’s largest and most luxurious Roman villas
We are giving people the unique opportunity to commemorate a special event or remember a loved one and help the environment by having a tree planted on our UNESCO World Heritage Site.
A limited number of saplings grown from Europe’s greatest collection of ancient oaks have gone on sale to the public at Blenheim Palace for the first time.
Our Estates Director has addressed a national conference on how to fulfil ambitious new goals for woodland creation in England and Wales.
A fallen ancient oak tree on our Estate has been given a new lease of life as a stunning carved bench thanks to the artistic skills of chainsaw artist Matthew Crabb.
In partnership with Morgan Sindall Group plc we are creating nine new woodlands, planting more than a quarter of a million trees to transform the land as part of an ambitious series of sustainability initiatives.
We are inviting farmers to tender for c.1,100 acres (445ha) of arable farmland as we implement our ground-breaking land strategy.
A team of volunteers is helping to re-plant an ancient hedgerow as part of a wildlife conservation project in Bladon.
We're building our own natural hives to help protect dwindling colonies of wild bees across our estate.
Our Gardens Team are donating nearly 2,000 spring bulbs to local groups following an online appeal.
We are officially launching our latest collection of our landmark Park View development this weekend and hundreds of buyers have already pre-registered their interest.
Our Herdsman Richard has harvested a bumper crop of vegetables from a giant edible chaos garden he created on our Estate.
We are working with VeloCity, which features engineers, architects and planners, to re-imagine a future based around people, places, public transport and new technology.