See why it was listed, view it on a map, see visitor comments and photos and share your own comments and photos of this building. A unique working estate owned by the national trust, which includes a grand mansion, home farm with rare breed animals, gardens and parkland. Enjoy falconry, sword school and archery, catch a talk by your favourite author or come and participate in our 50 things activities. Historic development the creation of wimpole hall as it appears today began in c 1640 when thomas chicheley began to build a new hall on the estate which his family had leased since 1428. Sited close to the great roman road, ermine street, wimpole was listed in the domesday book of 1086.
Click to share on twitter opens in new window click to share on facebook opens in new window. Wimpole hall, wimpole, cambridgeshire history in structure. Prior to this there had been a medieval moated manor house, just to the northwest of the present buildings. The remains were extremely dense, representing several phases of changing land use over a few hundred years. Successive designs for the park were prepared by charles bridgeman, robert greening, lancelot brown, william emes and humphry repton, who produced a red book for wimpole in 1801. The map above shows wimpole in 1638 as a medieval fourgabled manor house surrounded by a moat and deer park.
While wimpole s garden provides almost a case book history of english gardening from 1690 to 1830. At that time there was a moated manor house set in a small 81 hectares 200 acres deerpark. Our spinning panorama shows the long library at wimpole hall in cambridgeshire which houses an extensive collection of books. First built in 1643, wimpole hall has developed into the largest country house in cambridgeshire. To the east is harley street and to the west is wimpole street.
Wimpole has been continuously occupied for at least 2000 years with evidence from roman, anglo saxon and medieval times, and has two entries in the domesday book. Wimpole is part of an ancient landscape, a recent archaeological excavation revealing a late iron age to early roman c. Wimpole history and nature festival 2020 national trust. A story of wimpole hall written by wit hill about wimpole hall. Wimpole history festival 2021 june is a day out full of things to see and do, come and enjoy the hidden stories of the past with our interactive living history displays.