Queen Adelaide
Queen Adelaide is a hamlet on the River Great Ouse in the Fens about 1+1⁄2 miles northeast of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. The hamlet is named after a pub, which in turn was named after the British queen Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen.Photo: Fractal Angel, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: hamlet in Cambridgshire, England
- Also known as: “Queen Adelaide, Cambridgeshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ely Cathedral and Roswell Pits.
Ely Cathedral
Church
Photo: Tilman2007, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ely Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Ely, is an Anglican cathedral in the city of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. Ely Cathedral is situated 1½ miles southwest of Queen Adelaide.
Roswell Pits
Nature reserve
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Roswell Pits is a 20 acre nature reserve on the eastern outskirts of Ely in Cambridgeshire. It is managed by the Environment Agency. It is part of the Ely Pits and Meadows Site of Special Scientific Interest ) and Geological Conservation Review site.
Ely railway station
Railway station
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Ely railway station is on the Fen line in the east of England, serving the cathedral city of Ely, Cambridgeshire. It is 70 miles 30 chains from London Liverpool Street and is situated between Waterbeach and Littleport stations on the Fen line to King's Lynn. Ely railway station is situated 2 miles southwest of Queen Adelaide.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chettisham and Ely.
Chettisham
Village
Photo: Colin Attenborough, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chettisham is a hamlet in East Cambridgeshire between Ely and Littleport. The main claim to fame is St. Michael church. There are some pictures and a description of the church at the Cambridgeshire Churches website.
Ely
Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ely is a small, historical cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, England. Ely combines two sides: it is a pocket-sized medieval city that retains much of its medieval character, and at the same time a relaxed and tolerant market town, with increasing links to Cambridge.
Prickwillow
Village
Prickwillow is a village in the civil parish of Ely, in the East Cambridgeshire district, in Cambridgeshire, England, with an estimated population of 440 as of 2005. Prickwillow is situated 2 miles east of Queen Adelaide.
Queen Adelaide
- Category: locality
- Location: Isle of Ely, East Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.40897° or 52° 24′ 32″ northLongitude
0.29727° or 0° 17′ 50″ eastElevation
10 feet (3 metres)Open location code
9F42C75W+HWOpenStreetMap ID
node 29873760OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Queen Adelaide” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Queen Adelaide”
- French: “Queen Adelaide”
- Irish: “Queen Adelaide”
- Polish: “Queen Adelaide (Cambridgeshire)”
- Polish: “Queen Adelaide”
- Welsh: “Queen Adelaide, Swydd Gaergrawnt”
- Welsh: “Queen Adelaide”
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