The heatwave has exposed the remains of an 18th Century "military garden" at Blenheim Palace, aerial photographs have revealed. The dry weather has uncovered parch marks in the shape of a garden ...

The gardens at Blenheim ... Garden Re-establishing the scenic path from the Rose Garden to the Temple of Flora Building a rockery at the accessible entrance above the Water Terraces Blenheim ...

Meanwhile the 1920s centrepiece in Blenheim Palace’s Rose Garden, a statue of a young woman sitting on the shoulders of a centaur holding a conch shell, observed by a winged young child ...

Lady Henrietta Spencer-Churchill, the only daughter of the 11th Duke of Marlborough, has by any measure led an extraordinary life. As a girl she moved from the family home in Oxfordshire to Blenheim ...