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  1. 3 days ago · List of maps. A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 10, Cheveley, Flendish, Staine and Staploe Hundreds (North-Eastern Cambridgeshire). Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 2002.

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    2 days ago · Isle of Skye. / 57.307; -6.230. The Isle of Skye, [8] or simply Skye ( / skaɪ /; Scottish Gaelic: An t-Eilean Sgitheanach or Eilean a' Cheò ), is the largest and northernmost of the major islands in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. [Note 1] The island's peninsulas radiate from a mountainous hub dominated by the Cuillin, the rocky slopes of ...

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  4. 1 day ago · Ely was founded in 673 by St Æthelthryth, daughter of King Anne of East Anglia, by founding an abbey to the north of the village of Cratendune in the Isle of Ely. Queen Æthelthryth from Northumbria was on the run from her husband Ecgfrith, whom she refused to sleep with for twelve years in order not to break an oath of chastity. Ten years after her death, her body is said to have remained ...

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  5. 3 days ago · Willingham: Introduction. A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 9, Chesterton, Northstowe, and Papworth Hundreds. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1989. This free content was digitised by double rekeying.

  6. 2 days ago · Ireland is an island in Northern Europe in the north Atlantic Ocean. The island, of up to around 480 km (300 mi) north-south, and 275 km (171 mi) east-west, lies near the western edge of the European continental shelf, part of the Eurasian Plate. Its main geographical features include low central plains surrounded by coastal mountains.

  7. 3 days ago · Childerley: Introduction. A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 9, Chesterton, Northstowe, and Papworth Hundreds. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1989.

  8. 4 days ago · It is an attractive market town in the Isle of Ely, once an island in the marshes before the draining of the Fens, and is at the hub of a network of railways linking the Fens to surrounding counties. There are some notable historic buildings including the 15th-century church of St.Wendreda which is renowned for its double hammer-beam roof.

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