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RefNoK515/SP/Cam/156
AltRefNo515/SP156
TitleWimpole Estate
DescriptionWimpole Hall with brickyards and Wimpole Tower and ruins; advowson of the Rectory of Wimpole; Manor or Home Farm; Cobbs Wood Farm; Hoback Farm; all in Wimpole. Wraggs Farm; Church Farm; Arrington Mill; 6 almshouses; dwelling and general shop with post office; baker's shop and house; house with smithy; ground rent secured on district police station; all in Arrington. Pasture (4a. 1r. 3p.), with barn; Kneesworth, Town Farm; Kingston Wood Farm; pasture (11a. 1r. 0p.); all in Kingston. Holbein Farm; 2 smallholdings; Eversden Wood Farm; all in Great Eversden. Pickering Arms public house; The Home beerhouse with 6 adjoining cottages; Green Farm and Green Cottage; house, Whaddon Green; Whaddon Field Farm; Town Farm and Jarman's Farm; all in Whaddon. Coomb Grove Farm; Valley Farm; Hardwicke Arms public house and farm; Eights Elms Farm; all in Wimpole and Arrington. Hoback Farm in Whaddon and Meldreth. Old North Road Farm; River Cam Farm; Cambridge Road Farm; all in Whaddon and Wimpole. Church and Quarry Farms in Great and Little Eversden. New Farm in Kingston, Wimpole and Great Eversden. Edge Hills Farm in Bourn and Kingston. Kingston Pastures Farm in Kingston, Arrington and Wimpole. Thornberry Hill Farm with Arrington Bridge Farm in Wimpole and Orwell, Woodlands in Wimpole, Arrington, Whaddon, Orwell, Kingston and Great Eversden. Allotments in Kingston, Great Eversden, Orwell and Arrington. Arable and pasture in various parishes. The property listed above forms Lot 1.

Manor Farm; 4 pairs of cottages; allotments and gardens; site of Shingay Mill; all in Shingay. Shingay Gate Farm and 6 cottages in Shingay and Steeple Morden. North Brookend Farm; 3 smallholdings; allotments; Franklin's Farm; Church and Moco Farms; small farm; 2 closes of land; 16 cottages; Bell Inn; pasture adjoining vicarage; pasture (20a. 0r. 24p.); Lower Gatley End Farm; Upper Gatley End Farm and 2 cottages; Morden Heath and Thrift Farms; all in Steeple Morden. South Farm in Shingay and Abington Pigotts. Manor Farm with 2 cottages in Guilden and Steeple Morden. Town Farm in Guilden Morden. Arable in Litlington Farm in Litlington and Steeple Morden. Land in Ashwell (co. Hertfordshire). The above properties together form the Wimpole Estate.
Date1891
CreatorNameBidwell and Sons, Cambridgeshire: sale particulars
RepositoryCambridgeshire Archives
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