Wimpole

Coordinates: 52°08′24″N 0°02′46″W / 52.14°N 0.046°W / 52.14; -0.046

Wimpole is a village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, England, about 8 ¹⁄₂ miles (13.7 km) southwest of Cambridge. It is sometimes sub-divided into "Old Wimpole" and "New Wimpole". Notable people from Wimpole include the Independent minister John Conder. It is the site of the country house of Wimpole Hall (and its accompanying Wimpole's Folly).

History

The village of Wimpole grew up just to the east of Ermine Street, in an area now occupied by the parkland of Wimpole Hall, and the southern boundary of the village is formed by the Roman road that linked Ermine Street to Cambridge. A Roman settlement has been found in the parish on the site of the south-west lodge near Arrington Bridge.

Listed as Winepole in the Domesday Book, the parish formerly contained two other small settlements, Wratworth and Whitwell, but both had been absorbed into the single parish by the end of the 13th century, though the manor of Wratworth survived until the 17th century.