Blenheim, South Carolina Blenheim, South Carolina Blenheim is a town in Marlboro County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 137 at the 2000 census. It is named for Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England which itself is named for the Battle of Blenheim, a major English victory of the War of the Spanish Succession at what is now Blindheim, Germany. Blenheim Palace was the residence of the Duke of Marlborough, after whom Marlboro County is named. Blenheim Ginger Ale was originally bottled in Blenheim, with the local mineral water. Blenheim is located at (34.507513, -79.653088). According to the United States Census Bureau, the
War of the Spanish Succession diverted in June to seize the Spanish Bourbon [[Kingdom of Naples]]. The delays contributed to the failure of the siege of [[Battle of Toulon (1707)|Toulon]]; by the end of 1707, fighting in Italy ceased apart from attempts by Victor Amadeus to recover his trans-Alpine territories of Nice and Savoy. [[File:Duke-of-Marlborough-signing-Despatch-Blenheim-Bavaria-1704.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.15|Blenheim, August 1704; Marlborough's first major victory knocked Bavaria out of the war.]] [[File:Holy Roman Empire c. 1700.png|thumb|right|upright=1.6|Holy Roman Empire; main actions occurred along the Moselle, Rhine and Upper Danube.]] The first objective for the Grand Alliance in this theatre was to secure the Dutch frontiers, threatened by the alliance between