Blandford-Blenheim is a township in the Canadian province of Ontario, located in Oxford County.

[4] Population trend:[5] On June 10, 2005 the Oxford County Library Board closed the Drumbo branch.

When letters of appeal and a public meeting organized by Carl McLean failed to reverse this decision, the Access Committee Group – Robbie Savage, Valerie Johnston and Paul Jacobson – was formed to maintain a community library with internet access.

Charitable status was granted in June 2006 and a lease with the County (for rent and connectivity) was signed in May 2006.

DOC ceased operations at the end of December 2013 and returned the building to the control of the county.

Blenheim Springs Trout Farm, Walter's Dinner Theatre.

Similar tracts were established in Drumbo, Centreville, Innerkip, Embro and Lakeside.

The "To Our Heroes" Memorial Gate was set up in August 1921 in honour of the men and women who served in World War I. Plattsville Cenotaph is located on the property.

A cairn and flagpole in honour of Mac McAnsh, a gentleman who operated the hardware in Princeton for many years, is located in front of the Centennial Building.

The geographical area which is now Blandford-Blenheim was populated with Neutral/Attawandaron longhouse villages for many centuries but was abandoned to First Nations nomadic peoples by the 1650s as a result of warfare with Haudenosaunee and epidemics resulting from European contact.

A century later the area was being used for hunting grounds primarily by the Mississaugas First Nation, and it was from them that the land was acquired by the Crown through two treaties, the first signed in 1784, and the second in 1792.

Simcoe's program to make the new colony of Upper Canada a "mirror of Britain", using place names familiar from England.

Simcoe decided that the sequence of names for counties along Lake Ontario would be Northumberland, Durham, York and Lincoln, and for counties along Lake Erie, the names became Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Kent.

(This was the same sequence of county names in place along the eastern seacoast of England, running from the Scottish boundary down to the English Channel.)

The proclamation defined the northern boundary of Norfolk County as being the Thames River, but the area which became Blandford and Blenheim was originally designated as being part of the western end of York County for election purposes.

Simcoe with several other government officers, guided by a party of Six Nations warriors, conducted a wilderness tour on foot down and back up the length of the Thames River in February 1793 and decided to assign additional place names to mirror those they knew along the Thames River in England.

Middlesex County was the name to be used for the area around a town site reserved at the "lower forks" in the river, to be called London; Dorchester was the name for a town site at the "middle forks"; and the area around the "upper forks" was to be Oxford - the same sequence of names as found along the Thames in England.

Just as in Oxfordshire in England, Blandford and Blenheim were names at the northerly end of the county, around Woodstock, adjacent to the towns of Oxford and Burford.

Simcoe agreed it should be granted to Thomas Watson from New Jersey who promised to bring in settlers and build mills.

[10] Blandford Township was held in reserve by the government until a village began to develop along its southern end in the early 1830s, which took the name Woodstock.

[11] The official town plot was surveyed in 1834 by the prolific Crown surveyor Charles Rankin.

[12] In 1890, a body was found in a Princeton swamp that would lead to the Reginald Birchall murder trial that took place in Woodstock, Ontario.

Located in the former Wolverton Railway Station which was relocated to the Drumbo Agricultural Fairgrounds.

A plaque marks this brick house built about 1854–55 by Enos Wolverton, village founder and first postmaster.

Land agent and founder of Drumbo post office in 1854; he began a brick works here in 1874 and founded the Muma Block on this corner in 1890.

A group of individuals with a passion for reaching the community of Plattsville approached the local sandpaper factory (now Saint-Gobain).