Walking at Wimpole Hall

Things are a little bit quiet at our place at present. Our big excitement lately is finding new places to walk. When people talk about great places to walk in England, places like the Lake District, the Peak District and the Dales come up. Definitely not flat, flat Cambridgeshire. So it's especially rewarding to find great walks close to home, like the other week when we went back to Wimpole Hall for a walk and found it as beautiful of a place as you could hope for. 

From the parking lot at Wimpole Hall, we crossed by the front of the house and walked to the edge of the property, then followed the walking paths that lead through the cow pastures towards the lake.

The path slopes down toward the lake, where there is a bridge that takes you to the folly.

Up close, we started to question whether it really is a folly, it looks so much like the real ruins we've seen around the country. But I've confirmed it really is a folly, built purposely as a ruin to look pretty from the manner house across the lake.

Heading back across the lake, the path leads through a field of grazing sheep.

We were lucky enough to go when the lambs were still young, leaping and running around the field.

Here is the back view of the Hall, which I think is even prettier than the front. One of the things we liked best about this walk is the rolling hills, which are a bit rare here in Cambridgeshire.

I'm enjoying our quiet weekends with not much on the agenda besides finding a new walk.