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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 .
- Administrative county, (within Cambridgeshire)
The Medieval Liberty of Ely. The franchises enjoyed in the Isle of Ely by the bishops and monks during the Middle Ages included three main groups of privileges. In the first place, the Isle, like the rest of the church's lands, was an administrative immunity. The bishop, the prior and their successors, said a charter of Edward III in 1343 ...
Equally important is the fact that the liberty of Ely is 'thought to have been very ancient'. (fn. 5) Coke traced back the bishop's peculiar powers in the Isle only to the time of Henry I; (fn. 6) but at the end of the 18th century the Rev. Mr. Warren could state with some certainty that the original of these powers lay in St. Etheldreda's ...
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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The Isle of Ely consists of a hill about 7 miles (11 km) long and 4 miles (6 km) wide that rises above the surrounding fens (low-lying lands that were partly covered by water). The Isle of Ely is the highest point in these fenlands and was formerly an island surrounded by marshes and swamps; it could be reached only by boat or causeway.
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The Isle of Ely County Council governed the Isle of Ely administrative county that surrounding and included the city from 1889 to 1965. In 1965 there was a reform of local government that merged the county council with that of Cambridgeshire to form the Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely County Council .
In 673 C.E., Æthelthryth founded an abbey on the Isle of Ely, called the Church of St. Etheldreda and St. Peter. The abbey survived until 870, when the Danes destroyed the abbey and captured Ely, making it apart of Danelaw, a Viking kingdom which was comprised of the former kingdoms of East Anglia, parts of Mercia and parts of Northumbria.
