National Trust - Wimpole Estate

Lovely place to go as long as you don’t need assistance. Staff are rude and unhelpful.

Having read the previous two reviews, I nearly didn't visit Wimpole, but I am so glad we did! They have made so much progress since the last reviews, with a brand new car park, toilets and reception area in 2020 and constant progress towards good accessibility. They are currently working on access to the hall, with a new stair climber, which I only found out about as we were leaving.

If you can't climb steps, you can't access Wimpole Hall, at all, which is very disappointing. On the day I visited, we just went to a craft fair in the grounds and to the courtyard area, so I'm not sure what access to Wimpole Farm is like. The parts we visited were very poor as far as access goes. The path from the car park to the courtyard was basically earth with potholes, which on a rainy day was very difficult for my husband pushing my chair. To be fair, we could have taken a longer route, but that wasn't much better and there were no signposts to indicate a more accessible route. The courtyard is cobbled with brick stones and a boarded route would have been helpful to reduce the bone-rattling experience endured by my husband and myself. The main shop is difficult to access as the aisles are narrow, and I couldn't get in some of the smaller shops at all.