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Encyclopedia: Wisbech

Wisbech (IPA: ['wɪzbiʧ]) is a market town and inland port with a population of about 20,000 in the Fenland area of Cambridgeshire. The tidal River Nene runs through the centre of the town and is spanned by two bridges. The name is believed to mean mouth of the (River) Ouse but it has never been resolved.

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Thomas Clarkson

Thomas Clarkson (28 March 1760-26 September 1846), born at Wisbech in Cambridgeshire, England, was a leading campaigner against the slave trade in the British Empire...

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A47 road

The A47 is a trunk road in England linking Birmingham to Great Yarmouth. From west to east, the road goes Humberstone Gate in Leicester (ex-A47) Birmingham reclassified as B4114 Nuneaton Hinckley Earl Shilton Leicester subsumed into inner ringroad Uppingham Peterborough Wisbech King's...

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Fenland

neighbouring market towns of Chatteris, Whittlesey, and Wisbech (often called the "capital of the fens"). The.... It was formed in April 1, 1974, with the merger of the Borough of Wisbech, Chatteris Urban District, March Urban District, Whittlesey Urban District, North Witchford Urban District and Wisbech Rural...

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River Nene

, seemingly endless horizons. It flows through Wisbech, then Sutton Bridge in Lincolnshire, and it finally...

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The Fens

lower drainage basins of the rivers Witham, Welland, Nene and Great Ouse. Wisbech is known as the... centre of the Fenland District. Whittlesey, a market town Wisbech ("capital of the fens"), a market town...

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John Alcock (bishop)

. He died at Wisbech Castle. Alcock was one of the leading pre-Reformation divines; he was a man of...

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John Saul Howson

girls was established at Liverpool. In. 1866 he left Liverpool for the vicarage of Wisbech, and in...

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Cambridgeshire

, Tydd St Giles Welches Dam, Welney, Westry, Whittlesey, Wimblington, Wisbech, Wisbech St Mary... Hinchinbrooke House Peckover House, Wisbech Lode Watermill Down Field Windmill, Soham Great Gransden Post...

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List of passengers on the Mayflower

, daughter Bradford, William (Austerfield, Yorkshire) Dorothy (May) Bradford, wife (Wisbech, Cambridge...

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Archant

bought four weekly newspapers in Huntingdon, Ely, Wisbech and March from Thomson. The acquisition of... & Somerset Mercury Wisbech Standard Weekly Free Newspapers Diss Mercury Dunmow Broadcast...

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