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Ely

Ely is a small, historical cathedral city in , . 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.
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  • Type: City with 15,100 residents
  • Description: city and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England
  • Also known as: “Ely, Cambridgeshire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ely Cathedral and Ely railway station.

Church
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, formally the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Ely, is an Anglican cathedral in the city of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England.

Railway station
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is on the Fen line in the , serving the cathedral city of Ely, Cambridgeshire. It is 70 miles 30 chains from and is situated between and stations on the Fen line to King's Lynn.

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Oliver Cromwell's House in Ely, Cambridgeshire, England was the family home of Oliver Cromwell. The kitchen dates from around 1215, other parts being built later.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Stuntney and Chettisham.

Village
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is a village between Ely and in , England. It is just off the main road going from to Ely, the A142.

Village
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is a hamlet in 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.

Village
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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 of Saxe-Meiningen.

Ely

Latitude
52.399° or 52° 23′ 57″ north
Longitude
0.262° or 0° 15′ 43″ east
Population
15,100
Elevation
69 feet (21 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB ELY
Open location code
9F4297X6+JR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1593040792
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2650023
Wiki­data ID
Q209176
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Ely” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إيلي”
  • Armenian: “Իլի”
  • Asturian: “Ely”
  • Basque: “Ely”
  • Belarusian: “Ілі (Англія)”
  • Belarusian: “Ілі”
  • Bengali: “ইলে”
  • Bengali: “এলী”
  • Bulgarian: “Или”
  • Catalan: “Ely”
  • Cebuano: “Ely”
  • Chinese: “Ely”
  • Chinese: “伊利”
  • Croatian: “Ely”
  • Czech: “Ely”
  • Danish: “Ely”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Ely”
  • Dutch: “Ely”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ايلى”
  • Estonian: “Ely”
  • Finnish: “Ely”
  • French: “Ely”
  • French: “Île d’Ely”
  • Galician: “Ely”
  • German: “Ely”
  • Greek: “Έλι”
  • Greek: “Έλυ”
  • Gujarati: “એલી”
  • Hebrew: “אילי (אנגליה)”
  • Hebrew: “אילי”
  • Hindi: “ईली”
  • Icelandic: “Ely”
  • Indonesian: “Ely, Cambridgeshire”
  • Indonesian: “Ely”
  • Interlingue: “Ely, Cambridgeshire”
  • Interlingue: “Ely”
  • Irish: “Ely”
  • Italian: “Ely”
  • Japanese: “イーリー”
  • Kannada: “ಎಲಿ”
  • Korean: “일리”
  • Kurdish: “Ely, Cambridgeshire”
  • Ladin: “Ely”
  • Latin: “Elia”
  • Latin: “Ely”
  • Latvian: “Eli”
  • Latvian: “Īli”
  • Lithuanian: “Ilis”
  • Macedonian: “Или”
  • Malay: “Ely”
  • Manipuri: “ꯑꯦꯂꯤ, ꯀꯦꯝꯕ꯭ꯔꯤꯖꯁꯥꯢꯔ”
  • Marathi: “एली”
  • Mazanderani: “الی، کمریجشایر”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ely (Cambridgeshire)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Ely”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ely”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ely”
  • Norwegian: “Ely”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Elig”
  • Ossetian: “Или (Англис)”
  • Ossetian: “Или”
  • Persian: “الی، کمبریج‌شایر”
  • Persian: “الی، کمریجشایر”
  • Polish: “Ely”
  • Portuguese: “Ely”
  • Romanian: “Ely, Cambridgeshire”
  • Romanian: “Ely”
  • Russian: “Или”
  • Scots: “Ely”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Ely”
  • Serbian: “Ili”
  • Serbian: “Или”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ely”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ili”
  • Sinhala: “එලි”
  • Slovak: “Ely”
  • Slovenian: “Ely”
  • South Azerbaijani: “الی، کمبریج‌شایر”
  • Spanish: “Ely”
  • Swedish: “Ely”
  • Tagalog: “Ely”
  • Tamil: “எலி”
  • Telugu: “ఇలె”
  • Telugu: “ఎలె”
  • Thai: “อีลีย์”
  • Turkish: “Ely”
  • Ukrainian: “Ілі”
  • Urdu: “ایلی، کیمبرجشائر”
  • Vietnamese: “Ely”
  • Volapük: “Ely”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ely, Cambridgeshire”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ely”
  • Welsh: “Ely”
  • Western Panjabi: “الائی”
  • Wu Chinese: “伊利 (剑桥郡)”
  • Wu Chinese: “伊利（剑桥郡）”
  • Yue Chinese: “伊利”

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