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Wimpole Park ______________ |
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Wimpole Park There is a large flat area of arable pasture situated just
inside the Arrington Gates to
A winter panorama across the Wimpole Park site panning
around from due Between 1944 and 1960 the pasture, or Wimpole Park
as it became named, was host in turn to
Wimpole Park Buildings c1950 During 1959/1960, the USAF Hospital
was decommissioned and all the buildings and roads This is just some of the story.... |
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Site Contents 163rd
US Army Hospital
Photographs of Wimpole Park 1944-1960
Photographs of Wimpole Park Today
Wimpole
Hall Index |
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Wimpole Park Reunion 2004 The next Wimpole Park Reunion is being
held in San Antonio, Texas in September 2004. |
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Visiting Wimpole Park
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The site of the Wimpole Park complex lies close to the village of Arrington, on the A1198 road (Ermine Way), and is about eight miles (13 km) south-west of the University city of Cambridge, and six miles (9 km) north of Royston. Wimpole Park is part of the Wimpole Hall Estate, now owned and maintained by the National Trust. The Estate is open to the public from dawn to dusk throughout the year (closed on Christmas Day). Visitors to Wimpole Park travelling by car are advised to use the public 'Wimpole Hall and Home Farm' access (the road in yellow near Wimpole village on the above map) which is well signed locally. Wimpole Hall has extensive free car parking, and the Stable Block reception area has good toilet and refreshment facilities. There is no admission charge for walking on the Estate but a voluntary donation is suggested. The site of Wimpole Park is about a ten/fifteen minute walk from the Stable Block reception area. As you leave through the Stable Block entrance, first turn left then take a right turn through the road gate. You are now on the trackway that leads direct to the Arrington Gates and the site of Wimpole Park. You get an excellent view of Wimpole Hall away to your right as you pass. The trackway has several cattle grids with pedestrian gates to the side. Please close all gates behind you to help protect grazing livestock. Wimpole Park covered the large flat grassed pasture to your right as you near the Arrington Gates at the end of the trackway. There is no sign or marker identifying the location. |
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Contributions Welcome I am seeking information, discussion, dates, website
links, people, history, and your personal memories and reminiscences
relating to Wimpole Park. Please e-mail contributions I receive many requests for Wimpole Park photographs, especially for the time the site was being used by the 7510 USAF Hospital. If you have any photographs of Wimpole Park between 1944 and 1959 that you feel would be of interest to others, then please e-mail a scanned image direct to with all available details. |
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