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2 unusual facts about Wisbech


Elgood's Brewery

The brewery is located on the north west bank of the River Nene, west of Wisbech's town centre.

Wisbech railway station

Wisbech railway station may refer to one of several railway stations that served the town of Wisbech in Cambridgeshire, England.


Alexander Peckover, 1st Baron Peckover

Peckover was born at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, the son of Algernon Peckover, of Bank House, Wisbech, by Priscilla Alexander, daughter of Dykes Alexander, a banker, of Ipswich, Suffolk.

Colin Coote

Constituencies were completely reorganised by the Representation of the People Act 1918, and the Wisbech seat became part of the new Isle of Ely division.

Hundreds of Cambridgeshire

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 itself.

Marshland High School

Marshland High School is an 11-16 co-educational comprehensive secondary modern school in the Fenland area of Norfolk, England, situated in the village of West Walton (near Wisbech).

St Marys railway station

Wisbech St Mary railway station, disused railway station in the village of Wisbech St Mary, Cambridgeshire, England

Terrington St Clement

The village is linked to King's Lynn and Spalding, Lincolnshire, by a half-hourly bus service, and to Wisbech by a less frequent bus service that skirts the south of the village.

Wisbech Stirs

In late 1600 or early 1601 there was a transfer of 36 priest prisoners at Wisbech Castle to Framlingham Castle in Suffolk.


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