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BLANDFORD PARK, the seat of Lord Churchill in Oxford: adjacent to the Oxford and Worcester railway, 6 miles WNW of Woodstock. It belonged to the first Lord Clarendon, and was then called Cornbury Park. The Earl of Leicester, the favourite of Queen Elizabeth, died at it.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "the seat" (ADL Feature Type: "residential sites") |
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