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
Port of Wisbech Port of Wisbech Port of Wisbech is an inland port on River Nene in Wisbech, United Kingdom. It is mainly used for cargo and industrial purposes nowadays. Southern part of the port houses a number of berths for yachts. Regular shipments from and to Europe, mostly timber and forest goods from Baltic states. Wisbech served as a port in medieval times. After the estuary of the River Ouse became silted up, it was diverted into the sea at King's Lynn. This led to the construction of the present course of the River Nene from Peterborough to the Wash. The drained