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Wimpole Hall

Wimpole Hall is a country house located within the Parish of Wimpole

Wimpole

Wimpole is a village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, England, about 8½ miles southwest of Cambridge. It is sometimes sub-divided into "Old Wimpole" and "New Wimpole"....
, Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire is a Counties_of_the_United_Kingdom#England in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the northeast, Suffolk to the east, Essex, England and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west....
, England

England

Cambridge

The city status in the United Kingdom of Cambridge is a College town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies about 50 miles north of London....
. The house, begun in 1640, and its 3,000 acres (12 km²) of parkland and farmland are owned by the National Trust

National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty

The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, usually known as the National Trust, is a conservation organization in England, Wales and Northern Ireland....
and are regularly open to the public.

Wimpole is the largest house in Cambridgeshire.

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Wimpole Hall is a country house located within the Parish of Wimpole

Wimpole

Cambridgeshire

England

Cambridge

National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty

Thomas Chicheley

Sir Thomas Chicheley was a politician in England in the seventeenth century who fell from favour in the reign of James II of England. His name is sometimes spelt as Chichele....
(between 1640 and 1670), James Gibbs

James Gibbs

James Gibbs was one of Kingdom of Great Britain's most influential architects. Born in Kingdom of Scotland, he trained as an architect in Rome, and practised mainly in England....
(between 1713 and 1730), James Thornhill

James Thornhill

Sir James Thornhill was an England Painting of history painter subjects, in the Italian baroque tradition. He was the son of Walter Thornhill of Wareham, Dorset and Mary, eldest daughter of Colonel William Sydenham, governor of Weymouth, Dorset....
(1721), Henry Flitcroft

Henry Flitcroft

Henry Flitcroft was a major English architect in the second generation of Palladianism. He came from a simple background: his father was a labourer in the gardens at Hampton Court and he began as a joiner by trade....
(around 1749), John Soane

John Soane

Sir John Soane was an England architect who specialised in the Neoclassical architecture style. His architectural works are distinguished by their clean lines, massing of simple form, decisive detailing, careful proportions and skilful use of light sources....
(1790s), and H. E. Kendall (1840s).

Before the present Wimpole Hall was built in around 1640, there was a moated manor house set in a small 81 hectare (200 acre) deer-park

Medieval deer park

A medieval deer park was an enclosed area containing deer. It was surrounded by a ditch and bank with a wooden fence on top of the bank. The ditch was on the inside, thus allowing deer to enter the park, but making it more difficult for them to leave....
. Situated to the north and south of this were three medieval villages: Bennall End, Thresham End and Green End. Wimpole Hall's grounds were laid out and modified by landscape designers such as George London

George London (landscape architect)

George London was an English nurseryman and garden designer. He aspired to the baroque style and worked on the gardens at Hampton Court, Melbourne Hall and Wimpole Hall....
and Henry Wise

Henry Wise

Henry Wise was an England gardener, designer, and nurseryman. He was apprenticed to George London , working at Brompton Nursery, on the present site of the Royal Albert Hall and the museums of South Kensington, London....
(1693–1705), Charles Bridgeman

Charles Bridgeman

Charles Bridgeman was an English garden designer in the onset of the naturalistic landscape style. Although he was a key figure in the transition of English garden design from the Anglo-Dutch formality of patterned parterres and avenues to a freer style that incorporated formal, structural and wilderness elements, Bridgeman is a somewhat obs...
(1720s), Robert Greening (1740s), 'Capability' Brown (1767), and Humphry Repton

Humphry Repton

Humphry Repton , was the last great England Landscape architecture of the eighteenth century, often regarded as the successor to Capability Brown; he also sowed the seeds of the more intricate and eclectic styles of the nineteenth century....
(1801–1809). The parkland as it exists today is an overlay of the work of these landscape designers and gardeners, and was completed under the auspices of Elsie and George Bambridge. Elsie, the daughter of Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English author and poet. Born in Mumbai, British India , he is best known for his works of fiction The Jungle Book , Kim , many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King ; and his poems, including Mandalay , Gunga Din , and If? ....
revitalised the house. Thanks to her efforts, this National Trust property is in the state it is in today.

Bridgeman's formal grand avenue sweeps away from the south front of the house for two and a half miles in contrast with the remainder of the park which was "naturalised" by Capability Brown. The North Park is particularly attractive with its belts of woodland, gentle rolling hills with individual and clumps of trees. The central feature of the North Park is the Gothic Tower and the restored lakes in the valley below.

In the grounds are a chain of lakes (1695–1767), a church (1749), a folly

Folly

In architecture, a folly is a building constructed strictly as a decoration, having none of the usual purposes of housing or sheltering associated with a conventional structure....
(the false Gothic Tower; 1768), a farm (1792), a walled garden (18th century), and a stable block (1851).

Ownership

The owners of the modern estate, in chronological order, have been:

1640 Sir Thomas Chicheley
Thomas Chicheley

Sir Thomas Chicheley was a politician in England in the seventeenth century who fell from favour in the reign of James II of England. His name is sometimes spelt as Chichele....
(c.1613–1699)
1686 Sir John Cutler
John Cutler

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(d.1693)
1693 Charles Robartes, 2nd Earl of Radnor (1660–1723)
1710 John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 4th Earl of Clare (d.1711)
1711 Henrietta Holles
1713 Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer

Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer , was the only son of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer , by his first wife Elizabeth Foley, and was also a statesman and collector....
(1689–1741)
1740 Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke
Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke

Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke Privy Council of Great Britain , England Lord Chancellor, son of Philip Yorke, a barrister, was born at Dover, England....
(1690–1764)
1764 Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke
Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke

Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke Fellow of the Royal Society , and eldest son of the Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, was educated at University of Cambridge....
(1720–1790)
1790 Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke
Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke

Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke Knight of the Garter Fellow of the Royal Society was a British politician. Born and educated at Cambridge, England, he was the eldest son of Charles Yorke, Lord Chancellor, by his first wife, Catherine Freman....
(1757–1834)
1834 Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke
Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke

Charles Philip Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke , England Admiral , was the eldest son of Admiral Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke , who was the second son of Charles Yorke, Lord Chancellor, by his second wife, Agneta Johnson....
(1799–1873)
1873 Charles Yorke, 5th Earl of Hardwicke
Charles Yorke, 5th Earl of Hardwicke

Charles Philip Yorke, 5th Earl of Hardwicke, Privy Council of the United Kingdom , was controller of the household of Victoria of the United Kingdom and Master of the Buckhounds 1874?1880....
('Champagne Charlie')
1894 Thomas Charles Agar-Robartes, 6th Viscount Clifden
1919 Francis Gerald Agar-Robartes, 7th Viscount Clifden
1938 Captain and Mrs George Bambridge
1976 The National Trust

Wimpole Hall

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