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©mym
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©John Salmon
Dist:0.2km<br/>The bench mark is located on the South West corner of the church.
©Mark Hurn
Dist:0.2km<br/>Row of six cottages, possibly estate cottages, C18. Clay bat and timber framed, rendered, and long straw thatch roof. Modern applied framing to the front. Grade II listed, LBS Number: 52675. http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?resourceID=5&uid=52675
©Keith Edkins
Dist:0.3km<br/>Opened in Spring of 1993 to provide an area of quiet recreation.
©Eirian Evans
Dist:0.3km<br/>Built in 1846 for Susan, fourth Countess of Hardwicke, in memory of her mother. http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=52674
©Eirian Evans
Dist:0.4km<br/>The sign shows the church, part of the gates to Wimpole Park and a Roman (the village lies on Ermine Street - a Roman road).
©Mark Hurn
Dist:0.4km<br/>Arrington is on the old Roman road, Ermine Street. The road is named after a tribe called the Earningas, who inhabited a district later known as Armingford Hundred, around Arrington,Cambridgeshire and Royston, Hertfordshire.
©Eirian Evans
Dist:0.4km<br/>The gates are probably part of the improvements to the Hall made by H.E. Kendall in 1842 see "Wimpole Hall: Cambridgeshire" by David Souden, The National Trust, 1991 (p.38).
©Mark Hurn
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©Keith Edkins
Dist:0.4km<br/>The stag and the lion were heraldic symbols of the Hardwicke family.
©Mark Hurn
Dist:0.4km<br/>The grand entrance gates to Wimpole Hall which face onto the Ermine Street are rarely used now.
©Eirian Evans
Dist:0.4km<br/>The lion and the stag were heraldic symbols of the Hardwicke family.
©Mark Hurn
Dist:0.4km<br/>One of a pair of animals atop the entrance gates to Wimpole Hall a lion rampant on the left and a deer on the right, with the shields of arms of the Earls of Hardwicke. This was formerly a deer park.
©Eirian Evans
Dist:0.4km<br/>Wimpole Park Hospital was located here from 1944-60, all buildings are now removed. According to this notice, the hospital was first established in 1944 by the USAAF 163rd General Hospital Unit, this closed in 1946 and the buildings were used for a teacher training college. The site was reused as a military hospital from 1952-1960 by the USAF 3rd Hospital group.
©Mark Hurn

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