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Ely (/ ˈ iː l i / ⓘ EE-lee) is a cathedral city and civil parish in the East Cambridgeshire district, in Cambridgeshire, England, 14 miles (23 km) northeast of Cambridge, 24 miles (39 km) southeast of Peterborough and 80 miles (130 km) from London.
The District of South Cambridgeshire wards of Cottenham, and Milton & Waterbeach. [ 3 ] The bulk of the electorate, including the city of Ely and the town of Soham , was derived from about two-thirds of the abolished constituency of South East Cambridgeshire , with the addition of areas from North East Cambridgeshire ( Littleport , Sutton-in ...
East Cambridgeshire (locally known as East Cambs) is a local government district in Cambridgeshire, England. Its council is based in the city of Ely . The district also contains the towns of Littleport and Soham and surrounding rural areas, including parts of the Fens .
For the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which redrew the constituency map ahead of the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the Boundary Commission for England retained Cambridgeshire as a sub-region of the East of England region, increasing the number of seats from seven to eight with the creation of St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire.
Ely Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Ely, [1] is an Anglican cathedral in the city of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. The cathedral can trace its origin to the abbey founded in Ely in 672 by St Æthelthryth (also called Etheldreda). The earliest parts of the present building date to 1083, and it was ...
The seat was created for the 1983 general election which followed on from the merger under the Local Government Act 1972, of the two administrative counties of Huntingdon and Peterborough and Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely to form the non-metropolitan county of Cambridgeshire, with effect from 1 April 1974.
A successor parish was created covering the former Ely Urban District, with city status being granted to the new parish on 1 April 1974, the day it came into being, allowing the parish council to call itself City of Ely Council. [14] The new East Cambridgeshire District Council initially used the old urban district council's offices at 6 Lynn ...
The Local Government Act 1888 created four small neighbouring administrative counties in the east of England: Cambridgeshire, Isle of Ely, Huntingdonshire, and the Soke of Peterborough. Following the Second World War, a Local Government Boundary Commission was formed to review county-level administration in England and Wales. The commission was ...