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Places to stay in Wisbech
Wisbech, Capital of the Fens is situated about 25 miles to the northeast of Peterborough, is a market town of great character and historical importance. Visit the Wisbech and Fenland Museum and you will step back in time to the heyday of the Victorian Museum and a fine example of early Victorian purpose-built architecture. Built in 1847, it contains a vast, amount of local and natural history, geology and Folk life. The Angles Theatre in Alexandra Road is a lively and vibrant Arts Centre housed in a Georgian building with a theatrical tradition stretching back over 200 years. Built in 1793, it remained in use as a theatre for just over 50 years, since when it has had a chequered career as a school, a tent maker's and the Town Library. The present market place grew under the protection of the Castle until it finally outstripped the Old Market in medieval times. The market area has been paved, and landscaped, and is now an attractive pedestrianized zone and the focus for the twice weekly traditional market. The Market Place has been used as a centre piece for several other activities, such as Motor Shows, Statute Fairs and more recently, a Farmers Market fortnightly on Fridays, where fresh produce, grown locally and much of it, organic, is sold to the public.
