The manor of Hiptofts was settled in 1525–6 by Christopher Coote and Elizabeth his wife on John Huddleston and others, together with the fishery and 40 shillings rent in Wisbech and Leverington.

The next recorded owner in 1587, Henry Adams of Tydd St Mary, bequeathed it to his brother Thomas, of Duxford.

The name survived until at least 1777 as that of a piece of land of about 19 acres in Sayers Field, on the north side of the village street of St Mary's near an old Primitive Methodist chapel.

In 1620 Tuddenham Hall manor, with 200 acres of arable land, was held by Humphrey Gardiner, to whom it had been bequeathed by his father Thomas (d. 1566).

[3] Bevis Hall, later represented by a farm of that name on the North Brink at the south-east corner of the parish, was settled in 1624 by William Reve of London, on his daughter Margaret Bromley.

The Peterborough-Sutton Bridge branch of the former M. & G.N joint railway, opened in 1866, had stations in the parish at Murrow (East) and Wisbech St Mary.

[5] 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.

His wife, she did lament and wail, And wish his shoes she'd stood in, For she a widow lone was left, For want of Tansey Pudding."

After enumerating other dire calamities which befell the parish, the recipe for making the pudding is given as follows: "Of flour a sack, and eggs eight score, Then pour of milk a flood in, Beat, boil, and stir a month or more To make a Tansy Pudding."

The first Sunday after the abolition of the feast, the vicar, on going to officiate at St Mary, found a young donkey fastened in the reading desk, and a very small attendance of the "dearly beloved brethren" who formed his flock.