Editing Wisbech (section)

=== Anglo-Saxon ===
Like the rest of Cambridgeshire, Wisbech was part of the [[Anglo-Saxon England|Anglo-Saxon]] Kingdom of [[East Anglia (Kingdom)|East Anglia]]. It served as a port on [[The Wash]].<ref>{{cite book|title= Anglo-Saxon Hydraulic Engineering in The Fens|author= Michael Chisholm|year= 2021|page= 27|publisher= Shaun Tyas}}</ref>

One of the first authentic references to Wisbech occurs in a charter dated 664 granting the Abbey at [[Medeshamstede]] (now [[Peterborough]]) land in Wisbech<ref>{{cite book |title=Cemeteries, Graveyards And Memorials | author= Bridget Holmes | publisher= The Wisbech Society and Preservation Trust Ltd | year= 2010 }}</ref> and in 1000, when Oswy and Leoflede, on the admission of their son Aelfwin as a monk, gave the [[vill]] to the monastery of [[Ely, Cambridgeshire|Ely]].<ref>J. Bentham, Hist. Ely, 87.{{full citation needed|date=February 2020}}</ref>