Wimpole is a small village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, England, about 8+1⁄2 miles southwest of Cambridge. Until 1999, the main settlement on the A603 was officially known and signed as New Wimpole and Orwell, Cambridge Road. On 1 April 1999, following a parish boundary change and a referendum of local residents, the village name was si…Wimpole is a small village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, England, about 8+1⁄2 miles southwest of Cambridge. Until 1999, the main settlement on the A603 was officially known and signed as New Wimpole and Orwell, Cambridge Road. On 1 April 1999, following a parish boundary change and a referendum of local residents, the village name was simplified to Wimpole.