Wisbech (UK Parliament constituency) new Isle of Ely seat, to which were added the City of Ely and surrounding district. 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
Wisbech Princess Victoria during her brief halt in Wisbech. In 1863 a copy of Walker and Craddocks "History of Wisbech" was presented to the Prince and Princess of Wales on their arrival by train. The Wisbech Canal joining the River Nene at Wisbech was subsequently filled in and became the dual carriageway leading into the town from the east (now crossing the bypass). The port of Wisbech now houses a large number of berths for yachts adjacent to the Boathouse development. On 27 June 1970, the heaviest point rainfall was recorded in Wisbech, when 2 inches (50.8 mm) fell in just