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Blenheim Palace’s secret tunnels, Blenheim Palace’s lake has been drained revealing hundreds of years worth of history including secret tunnelsThe lake sits on the grounds of Blenheim Palace Get Weekly updates directly to your inboxSubscribeSee our privacy canada goose outlet jackets noticeMore newslettersThank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee our privacy noticeCould not subscribe, try again laterInvalid EmailA drained picturesque lake in the grounds canada goose outlet vancouver of 300 year old canada goose outlet new york city Blenheim Palace has revealed a series of canada goose outlet black friday sale beautiful hidden goose outlet canada rooms, sunken boats and mysterious graffiti.All the water was sucked out of the huge feature lake as part of a multi million restoration project which will see more than 460,000 tones of silt removed canada goose jacket uk from the centuries old lake.Archaeologists yesterday (Wednesday 31st October) entered the eerie chambers in the grounds of the ancestral home of Sir Winston Churchill after the flooded rooms were canada goose coats uk exposed for first time in more than 250 years, and revealed some startling secrets.The team found beautiful secret tunnels, sunken canada goose outlet hong kong boats from the 1950s and graffiti dating back to 1756 inside Vanbrugh Bridge at Blenheim Palace.Incredibly, they also found evidence the windowless rooms which may have even once been inhabited by people in the early 18th century.Full list of UNESCO World Heritage sites in the UK how many have you been to?The 160 acre lake were drained for the first time since 1768 when celebrated landscape gardener Lancelot canada goose outlet parka “Capability” Brown first built them, and one canada goose outlet of the chambers was found canada goose outlet winnipeg to have original plastered ceiling and evidence of a cooking canada http://www.canadagoosesalesus.com goose outlet vip range.The 33 rooms were built within the 400ft long bridge, when it was constructed on the grounds of the estate in Oxfordshire by Sir John Vanbrugh in 1708.It was originally designed to be a “habitable viaduct” by architect and playwright Sir Vanbrugh, and it contains ground floor rooms with fireplaces and chimneys, and a large windowless chamber that canada goose outlet in chicago appears canada goose outlet woodbury to be a theatre.You canada goose outlet niagara falls can now rent a 12th century Scottish castle on Airbnb and there’s even a golf course”But many of the rooms, especially the lower rooms, haven’t been accessed since they were flooded. That is until now. It is cavernous inside. When you see things like sunken boats inside it is like time has stood still.”We don’t know what the two tunnels we have found were built for and where they lead to as they are blocked off canada goose outlet toronto factory after about 30 metres.”They are 1.5 metres high which would suggest they were not designed for people. We haven’t yet been able to identify the names graffitied on the canada goose sale uk walls but the assumption is is that they were workmen here.”The Great Bridge, of Vanbrugh Bridge, was unprecedented in terms of design and size when it was first built and the sheer scale of the bridge caused Sarah, First Duchess of Marlborough, to fall out with Vanbrugh.Their bitter row over his creation reached such a fever pitch he was later banned from the estate.Records show that one of the upper rooms was used as a boathouse in the 19th and 20th centuries, but there is no such evidence to show any of the rooms were lived in.However, the recent discoveries have suggested some were indeed inhabited.Blenheim Palace was built in the early 18th century to celebrate Britain’s victory over the French in the canada goose outlet online uk War of the Spanish Succession, and remains the only non royal country house in canada goose outlet montreal England to hold the title of palace.

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