Blenheim Palace
Blenheim Palace from Gerrards Cross
Visiting Blenheim Palace? The car starts in Gerrards Cross. The drive is 56 minutes (43.2 miles) via the A40, M40 and A44. Between Gerrards Cross and the house you go through or past Beaconsfield, Wooburn Green and Loudwater. Blenheim Palace dates to 1705. Blenheim Palace is built in the English Baroque style. Gerrards Cross is a small town of 5,000 to 10,000 people, about 8,500 at the last figure. Gerrards Cross station dates from 1906. Gerrards Cross (GER) is the station, a couple of minutes from the middle of Gerrards Cross.
How the day runs
Collection is from your home in Gerrards Cross. Opening: park open daily (9am-6pm); palace and gardens open to day visitors, with times varying by date. Drop-off is at the visitor entrance, and the car stays while you look round. Rousham House is 24 minutes on, if the day has room for a second house. Return to Gerrards Cross: 43.2 miles. Ravensley is based in Oxford; reaching Gerrards Cross takes 48 minutes.
- Gerrards Cross to Blenheim Palace56 min, 43.2 miles, in clear traffic
- Blenheim Palace to Gerrards Cross55 min, 43.2 miles, in clear traffic
Times are for clear roads. Allow longer on event days and at peak hours.
Worth knowing
Blenheim Palace dates to 1705.
Source: wikidata.orgBlenheim Palace is built in the English Baroque style.
Source: wikidata.orgGerrards Cross had about 8,500 residents in 2021.
Source: wikidata.orgGerrards Cross station opened in 1906.
Source: wikidata.orgThe closest National Rail station to Gerrards Cross by road is Gerrards Cross (GER), within a couple of minutes' drive.
Source: wikidata.orgPark open daily (9am-6pm); palace and gardens open to day visitors, with times varying by date
Source: blenheimpalace.comOver 2,000 acres of 'Capability' Brown landscaped parkland, plus the Marlborough Maze, Walled Garden, Water Terraces and Italian Garden.
Source: blenheimpalace.comState Rooms, Great Hall painted ceiling, the Long Library of 10,000 books, and Churchill's birth room with an exhibition.
Source: blenheimpalace.com
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Questions
What drive time should we allow from Gerrards Cross to Blenheim Palace?
56 minutes (43.2 miles) via the A40, M40 and A44 in clear traffic; the return is 55 minutes.
Is the train an alternative?
The house's own nearest station is Hanborough, 13 minutes away by road; a car goes door to door.
Where can we eat or stay nearby?
Remont, 17 minutes away from Blenheim Palace.
Our undertaking
- 60 min
of waiting after landing on every airport collection, without charge.
- Nothing
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- 24 hrs
before collection, cancel or move the journey at no cost.
- In full
refunded if we ever cancel a journey, however late the notice.