Blenheim, Queensland falling numbers attending, the church was closed and physically relocated to Laidley. Blenheim, Queensland Blenheim is a rural locality of the Lockyer Valley Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2011 census, Blenheim had a population of 259 people. Originally the district was known as Sandy Creek, but later it was named Blenheim after Blenheim Park in Oxfordshire, England, which was in turn named after the Battle of Blenheim. Blenheim State School opened on 7 Apr 1879, with an initial enrolment of 73 pupils. In 1895, a German Baptist church was established at Blenheim under the leadership of C. Muetzelburg. As time
Blenheim Palace great avenue of elms leading to the palace, which were planted in the positions of Marlborough's troops at the Battle of Blenheim. Vanbrugh had wanted an obelisk to mark the site of the former royal manor, and the trysts of Henry II which had taken place there, causing the 1st Duchess to remark, "If there were obelisks to bee made of all what our Kings have done of that sort, the countrey would bee stuffed with very odd things" ("sic"). The obelisk was never realised. Following the 1st Duke's death the Duchess concentrated most of her considerable energies on the