Victoria Drive
The route Queen Victoria's coach took when she visited the Earl of Hardwicke at Wimpole Hall
The gates to Victoria Drive on Cambridge Road in 1930, with the Lodge just visible behind the trees
Victoria Drive is an old coach path, leading from the A603 to Wimpole Hall through a plantation of English native trees such as ash and chestnut on the National Trust's Wimpole Hall estate. It is so named because it was the route Queen Victoria's coach took when she and Prince Albert visited the Earl of Hardwicke at Wimpole Hall in 1843.
Today it is used by horse riders, walkers, dog walkers and cyclists too. There's a wonderful variety of trees and plants here. Wildlife to be seen along the route includes hares and muntjac deer.