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Wisbech

/ ˈwɪzbiːtʃ /

noun

  1. a town in E England, in N Cambridgeshire: market-gardening. Pop: 26 536 (2001)


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The rest of the family arrived in Britain a year later and they settled in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.

They told police that they had dropped Alisa back in Wisbech, near the Asda supermarket.

Wisbech is the centre of an extensive fruit district, situated partly in Cambridgeshire and partly in Norfolk.

At Wisbech, for instance, there was a "light" of S. Etheldreda, to which we find persons bequeathing small sums.

The joint river was called the Well Stream, and poured into the sea at Wisbech.

Wisbech became more and more shut off from the sea, and is now ten miles away from it.

Two of these are registered at Wisbech itself, as are also twelve sea-fishing boats.

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