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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 .
Evans map offers a glimpse of colonial America on the very eve of the French and Indian War (1755-1759; a.k.a. Seven Years’ War, 1756-1763). Evans, a draftsman and a surveyor, had previously made a more restricted map ~ Map of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, And the Three Delaware Counties (Philadelphia, 1749) ~ which had included the ...
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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.
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: The medieval Liberty of Ely", 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) 8-15.
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.
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) pp. 1-3.
Jul 13, 2016 · The journey takes about 20 minutes and costs £3.40 round trip. There is also regular train service from London’s Kings Cross Station every hour (Mon-Sat) for a journey of just over an hour. A round trip ticket costs £19. Ely Cathedral opens 7 am-7 pm in the summer and 7.30 am-6 pm in the winter.
