Bus to Churchill's home out from Oxford

Old Jul 2nd, 2010, 09:03 AM
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Bus to Churchill's home out from Oxford

Does anyone have information about the bus out to Bleheim from Oxford? How would we find a bus schedule? Does the bus go all the way to the house?

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Old Jul 2nd, 2010, 09:20 AM
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I did it both ways - took a bus to Woodstock - they are rather frequent from the main bus depot in the heart of Oxford. Then it was a short enough walk to Blenheim from where the bus left us off. That were a few years back but the point is it is very very easy to do with a good frequency of buses.

The official site below says that buses back to Oxford will stop in at the Marlborough Arms pub - a convenient place to wait for your bus!

Blenheim Palace
www.blenheimpalace.com
Woodstock
Oxfordshire OX20 1PX, United Kingdom
01993 810 500

Get directions - Is this accurate?
Bus: Woodstock, Marlborough Arms (SE-bound)
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Old Jul 2nd, 2010, 10:01 AM
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"Bus to Churchill's home out from Oxford"

Just in case there is some confusion -- Winston Churchill never lived at Blenheim. He was born there -- but that was just because he was premature and his parents were visiting Blenheim at the time.

He is buried nearby in Bladon Churchyard - but Blenheim belongs to the cousin's side of the family. Not that you may not want to visit Blenheim anyway -- but not because it was Churchill's home.

If you really want to see where Winston lived -- you'd want Chartwell in Kent south of London.
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Oh - no, the buses do not go to the house. You'd have to walk in from Woodstock and across the rather extensive grounds. If mobility is a problem - a cab from Oxford would be better (though much more expensive)
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The S3 bus goes every half hour from several Oxford stops(http://www.stagecoachbus.com/GetUpload.ashx?Id=2690)

You don't want the Marlborough Arms. Ask the driver going out to drop you at Blenheim gate, then return to the stop opposite that to get back. It's still a half-mile walk. If this is a problem, you probable need a cab from Oxford, though contacting them at the numbers on Blenheim's accessibility page (http://www.blenheimpalace.com/thepal...ssibility.html) will probably get them to be helpful about letting the cab drive up to the door.
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If you have time visit the Bladon Parish Church where the part American Churchill was and indeed is still buried. It's a typical small English parish church with the quintessential yew-tree-dotted English churchyard around it. I walked from Woodstock and caught the bus back to Oggsford from there.

Blenheim Palace has been scavanged before by Brits - Flanner.uk being the foremost in saying it's a pitiful pile of blocks i believe. But i at least loved the palace itself and especially the grounds, tacky tourist-driven sites and all.
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I'm not clear how mobile the OP is. He's expressed concerns about the distance between platforms at Paddington, and has breathing difficulties.

The management at Blenheim make dreadful neighbours - but they're also sympathetic human beings when they're not being asked to put our needs ahead of their money-grubbing. So phone them if getting around is a problem. However, Bladon church is another half mile or more in the other direction, and isn't on the Blenheim estate.

While it's the one bit of the Blenheim experience constructed on a human scale (thus demonstrating how much greater a human being Winston C. - who insisted on a spectacularly understated grave in a proper churchyard - was than his ghastly cousins and his unspeakable ancestor), it's very difficult to get to without a car if you've got mobility problems.
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