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Isle of Ely. / 52.400°N 0.2583°E / 52.400; 0.2583. The Isle of Ely ( / ˈiːli /) is a historic region around the city of Ely in Cambridgeshire, England. Between 1889 and 1965, it formed an administrative county .
The “Isle of Ely” is so called because it was only accessible by boat until the waterlogged Fens were drained in the 17th century. Still susceptible to flooding today, it was these watery surrounds that gave Ely its original name the ‘Isle of Eels’, a translation of the Anglo Saxon word ‘Eilig’. It was an Anglo Saxon princess, Saint ...
T D Atkinson. Ethel M Hampson. E T Long. C A F Meekings. Edward Miller. H B Wells. G M G Woodgate. "The Liberty of Ely: Introduction", in A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 4, City of Ely; Ely, N. and S. Witchford and Wisbech Hundreds, (London, 2002) 1-3.
One of the main centres of resistance in the years after the Norman invasion was Ely. During the Middle Ages, the monastery and small settlement that had grown up around it were surrounded on all sides by marshes and by water (see map, below), which made it an ideal base for the outlaw Hereward the Wake and his band of rebels when they rose against William the Conqueror in 1070.
Jul 13, 2016 · Ely emerged out of the dispersing mists, a dark dome of land capped by a giant cathedral. From water level, I could see why the cathedral, with its numerous towers and turrets, is often called, “the ship of the Fens.” Ely was originally an easily defended island in a vast area of lakes, meres, and marshes.
Feb 23, 2024 · Origins of the Liberty of Ely. The first presumably authentic and contemporary evidence for the liberty of Ely is contained in Edgar's charters of endowment for the refounded monastery in 970. In order to provide the monks with food and clothing, the king says, he has given them all the soke over the fenlands in the two hundreds, over the five ...
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T D Atkinson. Ethel M Hampson. E T Long. C A F Meekings. Edward Miller. H B Wells. G M G Woodgate. "City of Ely: The middle ages", in A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 4, City of Ely; Ely, N. and S. Witchford and Wisbech Hundreds, (London, 2002) 33-40.
