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Wisbech St Mary was the least nucleated of all the Isle of Ely parishes. Other villages include Murrow, Guyhirn and Thorney Toll. The Peterborough-Sutton Bridge branch of the former M. & G.N joint railway, opened in 1866, had stations in the parish at Murrow (East) and Wisbech St Mary.
The vill of Wisbech was divided around 1109 into two manorial properties, which subsequently became the two parishes of Wisbech St Mary and Wisbech St Peter (the latter including the town itself). [70] The two were treated as separate civil parishes from an early date, but remained a single ecclesiastical parish until 1854. [71] [72]
Wisbech St Mary railway station was a station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway line between Wisbech and Peterborough. Located in Wisbech St. Mary , it is now closed. The station building is no longer standing, having been demolished in around 2006 to make way for a new housing development on Beechings Close.
Wisbech was a rural district in Cambridgeshire in England from 1894 to 1974. It was formed from that part of the Wisbech rural sanitary district which was in Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, by the Local Government Act 1894. It covered the parishes of Elm, Leverington, Outwell, Parson Drove, Tydd St Giles, Upwell and Wisbech St Mary.
Formerly within the parish of Wisbech St Mary, Guyhirn (with Rings End) was made a parish in its own right in 1870. Its first vicar was Rev. W. A. Carpenter.. The parish church of St Mary Magdalene was built in 1878. It was designed by architect George Gilbert Scott for his older brother, Canon John Scott of Wisbech.
On 3 January 1837 ‘On Tuesday, at St.Margaret’s, Mr. James Medworth, son of the late Joseph Medworth, gent. of the Castle, Wisbech, to Miss Hipwell, of Waterloo-Street, in this town’. [23] Reported in the Lincolnshire Chronicle of 11 May 1838 - Mr.Thomas Newson Lawrence, of Wisbech married Miss Mary Medworth Gibson on 8 May 1838. "MARRIED.
The PE postcode area, also known as the Peterborough postcode area, [2] is a group of 36 postcode districts in eastern England, within 18 post towns.These cover north and west Cambridgeshire (including Peterborough, Huntingdon, Chatteris, St. Neots, St. Ives, March and Wisbech), much of south and east Lincolnshire (including Bourne, Stamford, Spalding, Boston, Skegness and Spilsby), and west ...
Tholomas Drove is a hamlet in Wisbech St Mary civil parish, part of the Fenland district in the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. The population is included in the civil parish of Parson Drove. In 1989, there were 120 residents. [1] The origins of the name are unclear but it has also been written as Tholomer's Drove and Tallamass Drove.