Wisbech

Wisbech is a market town and civil parish in the Fenland district of Cambridgeshire, England.
In 2011 it had a population of 31,573. The town lies in the far north-east of Cambridegshire, bordering Norfolk and only 5 miles south of Lincolnshire. The tidal River Nene running through the town centre is spanned by two bridges.

The place-name 'Wisbech' is first attested in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the year 656, where it appears as Wisebece. It is recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book as Wisbece. The name Wisbech is popularly believed to mean "on the back of the Ouse", Ouse being a common Celtic word relating to water, and the name of a river that once flowed through the town. A more scholarly opinion is that the first element derives from the River Wissey, which used to run to Wisbech, and that the name means 'the valley of the river Wissey'.
A wide range of spellings are found on trade tokens, in newspapers, books, maps and other documents e.g. Wisbece, Wisebece, Wisbbece, Wysbeche, Wisbeche, Wissebeche, Wysebeche, Wysbech, Wyxbech, Wyssebeche, Wisbidge, Wisbich and Wisbitch,
until the town's name spelling was fixed by the local council in the 19th century.

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