
A flower in the desert: wildlife of the Wimpole Estate, Cambridgeshire
At Wimpole in Cambridgeshire, the National Trust owns a 960ha estate with a Grade 1 listed Hall at its centre, with surrounding gardens set within a Grade 1 landscaped park and outlying farmland. The quality of the landscape is summed up by Humphry Repton in his 1801 Red Book for Wimpole.