Blenheim Orange Blenheim Orange Blenheim Orange (Dempster's Pippin) is a cultivar of apple. It was found at Woodstock, Oxfordshire near Blenheim in England in about 1740. It has been described as a cooking apple. A tailor named George Kempster planted the original kernel and the apple, known locally as Dempster's Pippin, which began to be catalogued in about 1818. It received the Banksian Silver Medal in 1820 and thereafter spread through England to Europe and America. This apple has a greenish-yellow to orange skin streaked with red. It has a distinctive nutty flavour and is excellent for cooking. Blenheim Orange does not
Blenheim Palace in film and media that have shot scenes at Blenheim Palace, include the following: A number of sources also credit the Berlin book-burning rally in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" as having been filmed at Blenheim Palace. However, these scenes were actually filmed at Stowe School in Buckinghamshire. The Roman Style Bridge features in synthpop band OMD's music video for their 1981 single, "Souvenir." Other parts of the video show band member Andy McCluskey driving his Volkswagen Karmann Ghia through the grounds. The BBC Radio Four programme "Just a Minute" was recorded (twice) at Blenheim with Clement Freud, Derek Nimmo, Peter Jones and