The Eastern Counties; their watering places, cathedral cities, and other places of interest, together with the approaches from LondonMaps and plans by Bartholomew . ibuses meet all trains. Ely (pop. 8172) is the smallest of English cities. Themeaning of its name, * eel island, indicates the nature of its situa-tion before the draining of the great alluvial plain in which itnow stands. The city consists of little more than one main street,which straggles up the slight hill of greensand on which theCathedral stands. It has no sights to show except the Cathedraland its precincts, but the former o
The Eastern Counties; their watering places, cathedral cities, and other places of interest, together with the approaches from LondonMaps and plans by Bartholomew . ibuses meet all trains. Ely (pop. 8172) is the smallest of English cities. Themeaning of its name, * eel island, indicates the nature of its situa-tion before the draining of the great alluvial plain in which itnow stands. The city consists of little more than one main street,which straggles up the slight hill of greensand on which theCathedral stands. It has no sights to show except the Cathedraland its precincts, but the former of these is one of the finest, andarchitecturally the most interesting church in Great Britain. Itis about half a mile from the station. The Cathedral at Ely maybe said to owe its existence to thereverence felt during the middle ages for Queen Etheldreda. Shewas the third daughter of Anna, king of East Anglia, and was bornabout 630, at Exning, some 2 miles of Newmarket. In652, against her will, she was married to Tondbert, a prince ofthe South Fen-men, and had the Isle of Ely settled upon her byhim. The marriage was a mere formal union, as Etheldreda had. NORWICH CATHEDRAL
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