Wisbech (UK Parliament constituency) Wisbech (UK Parliament constituency) Wisbech is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. It was created upon the abolition of an undivided Cambridgeshire county constituency in 1885 and was itself abolished in 1918. The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 split the former three-member Cambridgeshire parliamentary county into three single-member divisions. One of these was the Northern or Wisbech Division. During the committee stage of the 1885 bill, the MP for Cambridge University, Henry Raikes made an unsuccessful attempt to rename the constituency as the "Northern or Isle of Ely Division". The constituency consisted of the towns of Chatteris, March, Whittlesey and
Wisbech the population of Wisbech was 33,933, of whom 16,800 were male and 17,133 female. 6,748 were aged under 18 and 7,156 over 65. In 2014 it was reported by a popular national newspaper that of the town's 28,000 population 5,000 (about 18%) were Lithuanians. Several official places (libraries, surgeries, local council) provide translations into Lithuanian, as well as Polish, Latvian, Russian and Portuguese. The riverside location and fertile soils surrounding Wisbech allowed the town to flourish. The first half of the 19th century was a very prosperous time for the town and in 1851 the population was 9,594. It decreased