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 by Country Life Ltd in 1952. There are two free newspapers distributed within the town, the "Wisbech Standard" (owned by Archant) and "the Fenland Citizen"(owned by Iliffe Media). Two free local magazines are published monthly - ‘The fens’ and ‘Discovering Wisbech’. According to a study looking into immigration patterns, Wisbech was once identified as the seventh "most English" town in Britain by Sky News However, on 16 February 2008 a report in the "Daily Express" titled "Death Of A Country Idyll" wrote about how the influx of Eastern European immigrants may have caused the increase of crime and other illegal