Wimpole has been continuously occupied for at least 2000 years with evidence from Roman, Anglo Saxon, and medieval times. It has been owned by a number of different families. The earliest maps show a four-gabled manor house surrounded by a moat.
Early History
Wimpole is part of an ancient landscape, a recent archaeological excavation revealing a Late Iron Age to Early Roman (c.100BC – 150AD) rural settlement. The remains were extremely dense, representing several phases of changing land use over a few hundred years; two roundhouses were revealed, one with its central hearth intact with livestock enclosures, farming plots, and evidence of settlement reorganization.
