Wisbech St Mary Wisbech St Mary Wisbech St Mary is a small village, west of the town of Wisbech in Cambridgeshire, England. and lies between two roads, the B1169 and the A47. The population (including Guyhirn and Thorney Toll) of the civil parish at the 2011 Census was 3,556. Wisbech St.Mary was the least nucleated of all the Isle parishes. Other villages include Murrow, Guyhirn and Thorney Toll. The Peterborough-Sutton bridge branch of the former M. & G.N joint railway, opened in 1866, has stations in the parish at Murrow(East) & Wisbech St.Mary. The March-Spalding line opened in 1867 had stations at Murrow(West’s)
Wisbech East railway station March to Magdalen Road via Wisbech following in September 1968. The section east of Wisbech was subsequently dismantled, but the rest of the route remained open for freight traffic (from Whitemoor Junction) to Wisbech in order to serve the nearby Spillers (later Nestle Purina) pet food factory, Metal Box products and a coal depot. The line was singled in 1972 with the lifting of the down line. Nothing remains of Wisbech East, the station site having been entirely redeveloped and replaced by the Octavia Hill Centre for the handicapped. The Centre was itself subsequently demolished and replaced by housing. The