Wisbech & Fenland Museum
Museum Square, Wisbech, Cambs PE13 1ES | Tel: 01945 583817
Archives
The Museum holds a substantial archive containing the following resources: parish registers, local government records, manorial records, directories, photographs, maps and more. There is a general index for all archives at the Museum.
Local Government Records
Elm Parish Council
Emneth Parish Council
Parson Drove Parish Council
Wisbech Borough Council
Wisbech Rural District Council
Wisbech St Mary Parish Council
Manorial Records
Gedney Abbot
Gedney Pawlett
Newton Colvile
Sutton Holland
Walpole Colvile
Walpole Elred
Walsoken Colvile
West Walton Colerane
West Walton Colvile
West Walton cum Membris
Wisbech Barton
Wisbech Leet
Wisbech Murrow
Directories
11 commercial and street directories - the oldest dating back to 1830 and covering Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk.
Photographs:
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There are around 10,000 negatives, slides and prints in the Museum's photographic collections. Important contributors to these collections were William Ellis, a missionary who took photographs of Madagascar from the 1850s, Samuel Smith who took the earliest views of Wisbech and Herbert Coates whose work includes views of East Anglia and the east coast. |
Maps
We have around 650 maps and plans of Cambridgeshire and the Fens, the earliest of which dates back to c. 1590.
Other Archives
Tithe and enclosure awards
Turnpike & drainage records
Estate papers
Business records
Local societies and institutions
Charities
Prison records
Diaries and ephemera
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