Wisbech St Mary
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Wisbech St Mary is a small village, 2 miles (3 km) west of the town of Wisbech
in Cambridgeshire
, England
.
and lies between two roads
, the B1169 and the A47
.
The village has a church, a primary school and some public houses.
The village is built on an old watercourse, a roddon
; such sand and silt
beds are firmer and rise higher than the surrounding shrinking peat
fens.
Wisbech
Wisbech is a market town, inland port and civil parish with a population of 20,200 in the Fens of Cambridgeshire. The tidal River Nene runs through the centre of the town and is spanned by two bridges...
in Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire is a county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the northeast, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
.
and lies between two roads
Great Britain road numbering scheme
The Great Britain road numbering scheme is a numbering scheme used to classify and identify all roads in Great Britain. Each road is given a single letter, which represents the road's category, and a subsequent number, with a length of between 1 and 4 digits. Originally introduced to arrange...
, the B1169 and the A47
A47 road
The A47 is a trunk road in England originally linking Birmingham to Great Yarmouth. Most of the section between Birmingham and Nuneaton is now classified as the B4114.-Route:...
.
The village has a church, a primary school and some public houses.
The village is built on an old watercourse, a roddon
Roddon
thumb|right|alt=|High Street, [[Benwick]], [[East Cambridgeshire]], built on a roddonthumb|right|alt=|Houses built on a roddon at [[Prickwillow]], [[East Cambridgeshire]]...
; such sand and silt
Silt
Silt is granular material of a size somewhere between sand and clay whose mineral origin is quartz and feldspar. Silt may occur as a soil or as suspended sediment in a surface water body...
beds are firmer and rise higher than the surrounding shrinking peat
Peat
Peat is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation matter or histosol. Peat forms in wetland bogs, moors, muskegs, pocosins, mires, and peat swamp forests. Peat is harvested as an important source of fuel in certain parts of the world...
fens.