WIMPOLE, a parish in Caxton district, Cambridge; 2¾ miles SSE of Old North Road r. station, and 7 N of Royston. Post town, Arrington, under Royston. Acres, 2,428. Real property, £3,051. Pop., 406. Houses, 74. The property, with W. Hall, belongs to the Earl of Hardwicke. The Hall is partly of the 17th century, partly of the 18th; contains a rich collection of pictures by the old masters; and is approached by a spacious avenue, 2¾ miles long. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £398.* Patron, the Earl of Hardwicke. The church was rebuilt in 1749. Charities, £21.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))