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The Cascade at Blenheim Palace

The Cascade at Blenheim Palace

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The Cascade at Blenheim Palace

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Blenheim Palace WHS

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Location: Blenheim, West Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom

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Edvard

May 25, 2018

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The duchess boasted that the idea of the upper cascade, 'the finest and largest ever made', had never occurred to Vanbrugh, although an early plan, probably representing Vanbrugh's ideas, shows lakes linked by a canal beneath the bridge and a dam (with presumably some form of waterfall) at the causeway. The upper lake continued to cause problems: in 1731 Hawksmoor noted that the cascade 'does not play', and in 1738 it was choked with weeds.

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