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The name Ely stems from the "Isle of Eels," a wetlands near Cambridge, England. ... Climate data for Ely, Minnesota, 1991–2020 normals, extremes 1998–present ...
The latter monarch established Ely as the seat of a bishop in 1109, creating the Isle of Ely a county palatine under the bishop. An act of parliament in 1535/6 ended the palatine status of the Isle, with all justices of the peace to be appointed by letters patent issued under the great seal and warrants to be issued in the king's name.
It also ceded an area to the borough of Cambridge. In 1965 it became part of the new administrative county of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely. The district was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, and merged with the South Cambridgeshire Rural District to form a new South Cambridgeshire district.
The city of Ely formed a local government district in the Isle of Ely and Cambridgeshire from 1850 to 1974. It was administered as a local board district from 1850 to 1894, and as an urban district from 1894 to 1974. Unusually for somewhere which claimed city status, Ely was not a municipal borough.
GILES, a parish in the hundred of Wisbech, Isle of Ely, county Cambridge, 5 miles north-west of Wisbech, its post town, and 6 from St. Mary Sutton. The preparation of woad for dyeing is carried on. The construction of the Bedford Level canal, which is 100 feet wide and 30 feet deep, has greatly improved the quality of the land.
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 ...
Former public houses include the Cross Keys, in which Clement Freud lived when he was Member of Parliament for the Isle of Ely in the 1970s and early 1980s. [12] From Monday to Saturday Mepal has a two-hourly bus service (no Sunday service) to Chatteris, Ely and Cambridge.
John Dunn-Gardner (20 July 1811 [3] – 11 January 1903), of Soham Mere [4] and of Chatteris House, Isle of Ely, in Cambridgeshire (born as John Margetts, known as John Townshend from 1823 to 1843 and styled by the courtesy title Earl of Leicester from 1823 to 1843, known as John Dunn-Gardner from 1843-death) was a British politician and landowner.