WISBECH, a municipal borough, market town, and port in Isle of Ely, England, on the L.N.E.R. It lies in the flat fen country, on the east bank of the river Nene, 11 m. from its outlet on the Wash. Pop. (1930 12,005. The church of St. Peter and St. Paul has a double nave, with aisles, the north arcade being Norman ; but the rest of the building is mainly Decorated and Perpendicular. There are remains of a Norman west tower; the Perpendicular tower stands on the north side. The shipping trade is carried on both at the town itself and at Sutton bridge, 8 m. lower down the river. The chief imports are coal, timber and
iron, and the exports grain and other agricultural products and salt. In the neighbourhood large quantities of fruit are grown, including apples, pears, plums, gooseberries and strawberries.
By the Municipal Corporations Act of 1835 a mayor, aldermen and a council replaced the capital burgesses.
See W. Watson, History of Wisbech (Wisbech, 1827) ; N. Walker and C. Thomas, History of Wisbech (Wisbech, 1849) ; History of Wisbech (Wisbech and London, 1833) ; C. Marlowe, The Fen Country (1925).