Fir Tree Cottage

e-mail:
firtreecottage
@hotmail.co.uk

Telephone:
+44 (0) 121 354 9834
+44 (0) 7968 294784

Fir Tree Cottage
2 The Green
Stretton-on-Fosse
Gloucestershire
GL56 9SQ
United Kingdom

The name Blenheim derives from a decisive battle that took place on the 13th August 1704 on the north bank of the river Danube, near a small village called Blindheim or Blenheim, where the French leader, Marshall Tallard, had fixed his lines.
Here John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough, won a great allied victory over the forces of Louis XIV, thus saving Europe from French domination.

In reward for his services in defending Holland and Austria from invasion by the French,a grateful Queen Anne granted to Marlborough the Royal Manor of Woodstock and signified that she would build him, at her own expense, a house to be called Blenheim.