Winter wonderland returns

BLENHEIM’S MAJESTIC Oxfordshire gardens will surround visitors with more than a million twinkling lights, colourful trees and illuminated installations, all choreographed to a soundtrack of much-loved seasonal music until January 2.

The state rooms will be transformed to become The Nutcracker’s fairy-tale workshops and a traditional Christmas Market will fill the courtyard until December 19, with wooden chalets hosting hand-picked artisans.

The illuminated trail returns for 2021 but follows a new route that takes you across the South Lawn and into the woods beyond. View the moon and the stars reflected in the lake – as the constellations seem closer than ever before, firework trees fizz with lights that flash up from