Wisbech Greyhound Stadium Wisbech Greyhound Stadium The Wisbech Greyhound Stadium is a former greyhound racing venue near Wisbech. Wisbech is a market town in The Fens of Cambridgeshire, England. The area had strong coursing ties. The oval form of greyhound racing began to appear in this part of the country not long after the introduction of track racing in 1926 that gripped London and major cities around the country. Norwich to the east would experience four tracks; The Firs Stadium, Boundary Park Stadium, Thorpe Greyhound Track and the City Stadium, Norwich in the following years. The Wisbech track was a small circuit situated
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