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1648 map by J Blaeu of Cambridgeshire with the Isle of Ely. Until the 17th century, the area was an island surrounded by a large area of fenland, a type of swamp.It was coveted as an area easy to defend, and was controlled in the very early medieval period by the Gyrwas, an Anglo-Saxon tribe.
Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely, borders shown in red, covered the area of the current districts of Fenland, East Cambridgeshire, South Cambridgeshire, and the City of Cambridge. The Local Government Act 1888 created four small neighbouring administrative counties in the east of England: Cambridgeshire, Isle of Ely , Huntingdonshire , and the ...
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.
The Isle of Ely was seized by the followers of Simon de Montfort in 1266, but in 1267 was taken by Prince Edward. At the Reformation period the county showed much sympathy with the Reformers, and in 1642 the knights , gentry and commoners of Cambridgeshire petitioned for the removal of all unwarrantable orders and dignities, and the banishment ...
Littleport is a town in East Cambridgeshire, in the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. It lies about 6 miles (10 km) north-east of Ely and 6 miles (10 km) south-east of Welney, on the Bedford Level South section of the River Great Ouse, close to Burnt Fen and Mare Fen. There are two primary schools, Millfield Primary and Littleport Community ...
Isle of Ely County Council chose to base itself in March, building County Hall on County Road in 1909 (renamed Fenland Hall in 1974). [11] Between 1965 and 1974, the administrative county covering March was called Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely. [13] March Urban District was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972. District-level ...
Ely, Cambridgeshire has 182 listed buildings. Notable buildings Name Image Grade Notes Location Infirmary I Former 11th-century infirmary now four private dwellings consisting of St John's Farmhouse, Barn to south-west, Barn to north and Dovecote to St John's Farm Monastery barn and storehouse I Built c. 1575, the barn and storehouse of the monastery is located to the south of Ely Porta. [6 ...
Incorporating the liberty of Isle of Ely, a county palatine from 1107 to 1535/6, declared a division of Cambridgeshire in 1837 when the secular powers of the Bishop of Ely ended. For the Soke of Peterborough to 1965, see Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire and for Huntingdonshire during this period, Lord Lieutenant of Huntingdonshire.