Wimpole Estate is a large estate containing Wimpole Hall, a country house located within the civil parish of Wimpole, Cambridgeshire, England, about 8+1⁄2 miles southwest of Cambridge. The house, begun in 1640, and its 3,000 acres (12 km2) of parkland and farmland are owned by the National Trust. The estate is regularly open to the public and received over 335,000 visitors in 2019. Wimpole is the largest house in Cambridgeshire.
The entrance front
The Yellow Drawing Room 1793 by Sir John Soane
The chapel by James Gibbs with murals by Sir James Thornhill completed 1724
The Plunge Bath c.1792 by Sir John Soane
The National Trust is a charity and membership organisation for heritage conservation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. In Scotland, there is the separate and independent National Trust for Scotland.
Octavia Hill by John Singer Sargent, 1898
The first building the Trust acquired was Alfriston Clergy House in 1896.
Bodiam Castle was acquired by the Trust in 1926.
Stourhead