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MARCH is a parish and market town and the head of a county court district and petty sessional division, with an important junction station on the Great Eastern and Great Northern railways, 88 miles from London by rail, 29 north from Cambridge, 14 north-west from Ely and 9 south from Wisbech, in the Northern division of the county, hundred and union of North Witchford, Isle of Ely, rural deanery of March and in the peculiar archidiaconal jurisdiction of the Bishop of Ely.
The town is now divided into four ecclesiastical parishes which, with three others, were formed out of the parish of Doddington subsequently to 1863, according to the provisions of the Doddington Rectory Division Acts, 10 and 11 Vict. c. 3 (1847) and 19 and 20 Vict. c. 1 (1856).
The church of St. Wendreda, anciently a chapel to Doddington, and about a mile from March bridge, on the London road, was originally erected about 1346.
[Kellys Directory of Cambridgeshire 1900]
The parish of St Mary was formed from part of March St Wendreda parish in 1868.
The Parish of St John was formed in 1872 from parts of March St Wendreda. Although there is no Burial Ground for March St John – all burials took place in the adjoining Station Road cemetery – there are 2 gravestones in the churchyard – those of the Reverend Edward WELLS, his wife Kate Caroline and a daughter Agnes Marion.
The parish of March St Peter was formed in 1881 from parts of March.
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