Research topic: Isle of Ely

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Isle of Ely

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Isle of Ely region, Cambridgeshire, E central England. Ely is the chief town. The region has extensive fens, drained and devoted to the cultivation of sugar beets and vegetables. Pigs and poultry are raised. The name Isle comes from the high ground amid the fens; Ely supposedly refers to the eels formerly in the waters. Author not available, ELY, ISLE OF. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more
Ely, diocese of
...not granted until 1109, when Henry I and Anselm carved the Ely diocese out of the vast see of Lincoln. Based on a rich abbey, in Domesday second only to Glastonbury in wealth, Ely was in the first league. Together with the archbishops of...York and the bishops of Winchester and Durham , bishops of Ely ... Read more
Cambridgeshire
...number of small villages; that part of the Isle of Ely which centred on Ely itself; and a northern part of the isle, around March and Wisbech, which looked...administrative systems and, though the Isle of Ely was made a division of Cambridgeshire... Read more

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