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Wisbech Merchants' Trail was updated and released as a map and booklet and as a free mobile app in August 2019. There are 17 brass plaques at historical sites around the town. [240] The town council produces an annual Official Town Guide and Map published by Local Authority Publishing Co Ltd. There is also an online version.
At the 1871 census Wisbech (Municipal Borough Limits) consisted of 6,432acres, 2,162 houses, and 9,362 persons. [2] A long, narrow tail of land was detached and given to Wisbech Rural District. In 1933 the south-western part of Wisbech MB was transferred to the parish of Elm leaving Wisbech RD surrounding the Borough on three sides. [3] [4]
Wisbech Town Council is a parish council covering the town of Wisbech in England. It is the successor to the Wisbech Municipal Borough . The Council is based at 1 North Brink , Wisbech where its committee meetings and full council meetings are usually held.
The River Nene provides access to the sea via the Port of Wisbech. Other waterways provide opportunities for angling and other water based activities. Marinas are located in Wisbech and March. The council run markets in three of the towns (the market in Wisbech is run by Wisbech Town Council) and a number of festivals and other events. [17]
Opened in 1883, the Wisbech and Upwell Tramway ran from the Isle of Ely town of Wisbech to the Cambridgeshire (since 1974 Norfolk) village of Upwell. Its route carried it close to farms and villages, allowing goods to be shipped into Wisbech where they could be transferred onto the main line and carried to destinations further afield.
The first town hall in Hill Street. The first town hall in Wisbech was a medieval building in Hill Street which dated from the 14th century. [2] It was used as a guildhall and also as the local school from early days; following the English Reformation, the school was renamed Wisbech Grammar School and re-established there in 1549.
At the time of the Domesday Survey in 1086 the county was divided into the hundreds as they are now, except that the Isle of Ely, which then formed two hundreds having their meeting-place at Witchford, were subsequently divided into the four hundreds of Wisbech, Ely, North Witchford and South Witchford, while Cambridge formed a hundred by ...
Murrow is a village in the civil parish of Wisbech St Mary, in Cambridgeshire, England. [1] The village is on Murrow Bank, the B1187 road, 5 miles (8 km) west from the town of Wisbech. Its population is included in the civil parish of Parson Drove.