Wimpole

Wimpole
Wimpole
	Wimpole Location within Cambridgeshire
Population	227 (2001) ; 301 (2011)
OS grid reference	TL337509
Civil parish	Wimpole;
District	South Cambridgeshire ;
Shire county	Cambridgeshire ;
Region	East ;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Royston
Postcode district	SG8
Dialling code	01223
	List of places UK England Cambridgeshire 52°08′24″N0°02′46″W / 52.14°N 0.046°W

Last updated June 26, 2024

Wimpole is a small village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, England, about 8+1⁄2 miles (13.7 km) southwest of Cambridge. Until 1999, the main settlement on the A603 was officially known and signed as New Wimpole and Orwell, Cambridge Road. On 1 April 1999, following a parish boundary change and a referendum of local residents, the village name was simplified to Wimpole.

History

The present village of Wimpole was founded around 1840 about a mile to the east of Ermine Street, either side of the Roman road that once linked Ermine Street to Cambridge (now the A603). A Roman settlement has been found in the parish on the site of the south-west lodge near Arrington Bridge.^[3]

Listed as Winepole in the Domesday Book of 1086, 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.^[3]

The name 'Wimpole' comes from "pool of a man named Wina". The pool in question is that found in Wimpole Park.^[4]

The modern parish is 2468 acres in extent.

Parish church

The parish church of St Andrew is in use within the Orwell Group of Parishes, holding services on the first and third Sundays of each month. The building is Grade II* listed.^[5] It is next-door to the Hall and was once part of the Hall's estate (whose east service wing nearly abutted it at one point). It contains the family tombs of some of its residents, such as the Earls of Hardwicke, and a stained-glass window commemorating Thomas Agar-Robartes, eldest son of Thomas Charles, 6th Viscount Clifton and Mary, Viscountess Clifton of Lanhydrock, Bodmin, Cornwall. A medieval church on the site was demolished (except for most of the Chicheley Chantry or Chapel dating to 1390, which survived despite thus being open to the north side of the body of the nave during the 1749 construction work) in 1749 to build the present nave and chancel.^[3]

The chantry's name dates to when the estate was owned by Henry Chichele and his relations' descendants. However, it was actually founded by the previous owner of the estate, Sir William de Staundon (MP, Master of the Grocer's Company, and Lord Mayor of London in 1392 and 1407) in c.1390. He and his first wife Elizabeth are buried at Wimpole. Both the church and chantry were remodelled in Neo Gothic style in the mid 19th century, and then restored again straight after the Second World War, in 1993/4 and in 1997.

Notable people

John Conder (1714 – 1781), Independent minister

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References

↑ 2001 census
↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
1 2 3 C. R. Elrington, ed. (1973). A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 5. Victoria County History. pp. 263–272.
↑ Walter Skeat (1901). The Placenames of Cambridgeshire.
↑ Historic England. "Church of St Andrew (Grade II*) (1330900)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 14 December 2021.

External links

Wimpole Past. A local history and genealogy site for Wimpole

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[1] 2001 census

[2] "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 26 July 2016.

[victoria-3] 1 2 3 C. R. Elrington, ed. (1973). A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 5. Victoria County History. pp. 263–272.

[4] Walter Skeat (1901). The Placenames of Cambridgeshire.

[5] Historic England. "Church of St Andrew (Grade II*) (1330900)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 14 December 2021.

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