Wimpole Estate

The Hall is open daily, with the ground floor and basement rooms to explore on your visit. Discover more about the Hall's rich and varied history, and explore the rooms here.

Discover Wimpole's gardens and take a walk through the Pleasure Grounds along the Explorer Pathway, meandering your way to the Walled Garden surrounded by herbaceous borders and fruit trees.

Explore the acres of parkland at Wimpole, abundant with wildlife, flora and fauna; wander through the trees, head across the Chinese bridge and visit the Gothic folly.

A visit to Home Farm is a favourite with all the family. Discover our rare breed animals and make friends with familiar farmyard favourites.

Whether you're a regular visitor or it's your first time, we can't wait to welcome you to Wimpole Estate. Take a look at our handy guide on what you need to know to help plan your day.

Join us at Wimpole Estate for Harv’Fest, a celebration of the season and all that we grow, cultivate, and produce on the Estate. Discover a programme of talks, events, and demonstrations throughout September.

Make Christmas 2022 extra special at Wimpole Estate. Lights and seasonal sounds will fill the air with festive fun at Wimpole, making the most wonderful time of year even more magical.

The Old Rectory Restaurant, Stables Cafe and Farm Kiosk are open daily throughout the summer holidays. Whether you're looking to enjoy a light lunch, a grab and go drink and snack, to top up your picnic or an ice cream treat, discover what's available at Wimpole Estate.

Our shop is open and offers something for everyone. Whether it’s environmentally-friendly swaps for a more sustainable life, a gift for a loved one or an indulgence for yourself, every purchase helps us look after Wimpole for everyone, for ever.

Wimpole’s second hand bookshop helps to raise money for conservation projects all around the estate.

As part of the Green Recovery Challenge Fund, discover how Wimpole are supporting a green recovery to create and restore habitats, tackle climate change and connect our visitors with nature.

Across our estate, we work with our farm tenants to find ways to deliver for nature as part of a sustainable and profitable farm business.

Ahead of the COP26 conference in Glasgow later this month, Wimpole has hosted a climate summit, bringing together the nation's largest landowners and government to tackle the climate crisis. The meeting explored what more landowners and land managers can do at "ground level" to work alongside nature to mitigate the impact of the changing climate, while ensuring optimal use of land.

Wimpole Estate has added another chapter to its long history with a new visitor welcome and gateway to the Estate. Updates include a new car park; a new Multi-use trail coming soon; new Heavy Horse stabling; and installation of green renewable energy.

As the Trust's only in-hand lowland arable farm, Wimpole is in an ideal position to be a champion for agriculture, trialling new methods and techniques and at the same time supplying its organic produce.

During an archaeological dig at Lamp Hill Wimpole in 2018, excavations revealed part of the ancient landscape here, a Late Iron Age to Early Roman (c.100BC – 150AD) rural settlement. The latest research has led to remarkable new discoveries...

As with any house, garden and farm there is always some work to do to maintain it, to keep it weatherproof; to repair something and here at Wimpole it is no different.

One off projects, both large and small take place as and when budgets allow, the restoration of the Gothic Tower the most recent and visible large project completed at Wimpole.

We're planting one thousand trees in the parkland and pasture over the next ten years, replacing dead, fallen and missing trees from planting plans of previous landscape designers at Wimpole.

Now more than ever, we all need access to nature, fresh air and open spaces. Become a member today and you can explore more than 500 places. What's more, your membership will go towards looking after nature, beauty and history for generations to come.

For 125 years, people like you have helped us protect some of the UK's best-loved places. Everyone needs nature, beauty and green spaces now more than ever. But our income has dropped sharply due to the coronavirus crisis, and our essential conservation work is at risk. Please give what you can to help us look after these places, so people and nature can thrive.

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Discover the rare breeds on our farm and the history of our estate as you follow our self-led tours.