How many people live in wisbech uk

Plenty of locals say that zero-hours, minimum-wage arrangements inevitably exclude anyone with a family to feed, and rent or a mortgage to be paid — and that they are therefore stranded in a part of the economy where the arrival of Burger King is deemed important enough to make the front page of the Fenland Citizen. Here, the recession had a particularly difficult subtext: as the local economy shrank, say some people, the effects of the downturn were often blamed on new arrivals who, in time, actually revived the town centre.

There are still concerns about the pressures that a huge expansion in population has put on schools and doctors' surgeries. I also hear whispers and worries I have picked up in other places: some people claim they have seen shops and pubs with "No English" signs; a few say they are now too scared to leave their houses after dark. There are some signs of burgeoning integration, not least when people talk about their children, but most adults still seem to live on either side of a deep divide, embodied in some things that have to be pointed out to an outsider.

The large satellite dishes affixed to some houses, for example, are to pick up eastern European TV — perhaps a sign of how technology makes separateness easier. Moreover, Wisbech's social and economic divides have now been vividly politicised: Ukip took all three local seats from the Tories in last year's county council elections , and the town now forms one of the many key parts of the party's eastern English heartland.

The Rosmini Centre sits in the south of the town, next to a Catholic church. Founded in to teach English to recently arrived Polish people, and funded by fundraising and donations, it now offers a range of advice and help to people from abroad, as well as laying on activities for the whole town.

Its manager is London-born Anita Grodkiewicz, who talks me through the centre's work, and the issues with which she and her colleagues deal, on a seemingly hourly basis. And it's not that numbers are increasing; it's that people are settling and bringing their families.

Among the staff is year-old Oksana Straseviciene. She grew up in a Soviet-era Lithuanian town called Elektrenai, before spending a year in Northern Ireland, returning to Lithuania, and then moving to Wisbech four years ago.

How, I wonder, does she find local people's attitudes to those who have come here? They're still not very happy with what's happened … I think Wisbech really becomes [sic] a small Latvia or Lithuania, or something like that. She says she understands why some are either anxious or actively hostile — and, just to underline the fact that what people say about migration often defies easy categorisation, lays some blame on people from eastern Europe.

They know they can work for just 24 hours [a week] and get tax credits. Not surprisingly, she has direct experience of hostility from locals. That is the worst thing. A lot of things happen in the park: they try and push them from the swings. They think their child is privileged because they're English. It's really upsetting. Number of usual residents by area. Population estimates for all persons by broad age group for Population estimates for all persons by 5-year age group for Population estimates for males and females for Country of birth breakdown.

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You can read about the cookies we use here. OK, I accept cookies. Persons aged 0 - Persons aged 16 - Northern Ireland. EU: Member countries in March EU: Accession countries April to March Around 71, people in Cambridgeshire are living in poverty — including 14, children — with Wisbech singled out as one of the worst hit parts of the county.

Cambridgeshire County Council says it will now "strengthen families and communities" to tackle deprivation and understand the causes of it. Around households in Fenland are within the most deprived areas of the county, according to a report that went before councillors. The report says the worst performer is Waterlees, Wisbech, where more than a third of children are classified as living in poverty closely followed by Abbey, Cambridge, where just under a third said to be below the poverty line.

Littleport West also comes out badly at The number of working age people on out of work benefits in Cambridgeshire is 30,, with high numbers appearing in areas of social housing and new developments. Key areas will now be tackled as part of the communities and partnership committee at the council to "improve outcomes and opportunities" for citizens.

The corporation could own property, sue people and make by-laws. However, like all towns in those days, Tudor Wisbech suffered from outbreaks of the plague. There was a severe outbreak of plague in Wisbech in During the civil war between king and parliament Wisbech was in the center of the parliamentary area.

Although earthwork defenses were built around the town Wisbech escaped fighting. However, in Wisbech suffered another severe flood. A man named Thomas Thurloe built it. In Wisbech gained its first fire engine a hand-operated pump and in the growing port of Wisbech was made a port in its own right separate from Kings Lynn.

By Wisbech probably had a population of around 2, By n it had risen to 4, That may seem very small to us but by the standards of the time it was a fair-sized market town. Wisbech continued to prosper in this century. Peckover house was built in It got its name in In that year it was purchased by a banker named James Peckover.

The house was given to the National Trust in In the 18th century, Wisbech became a genteel and prosperous town. It was still a busy port. Grain was exported. There was also a brewing industry. The building that now houses Elgoods Brewery was erected about A theatre was built in Wisbech in Today it is the Angles Centre. In the 19th century life in Wisbech continued to improve at least for the well-off.

An act of parliament of gave Wisbech corporation powers to pave, clean, and light the streets.