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Ely is a cathedral city, administrative and historic country in the East Cambridgeshire district in the East of England and 64 miles east north-east of Charing Cross in London. Ely is the third smallest city in England and the sixth smallest in the United Kingdom. Ely is on the River Great Ouse and was a significant port until the 18th century.
Ely derives its name from eel and-y or-ey Meaning Island, i.e. an island where there were a lot of eels.
Ely is the nearest cathedral city to Cambridge. Cambridge does not have its own cathedral and is within the Diocese of Ely. The diocese covers 1507 square miles and holds 610,000 people (1995) and 341 churches.
The magnificent cathedral of Ely, the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, is known as the Ship of the Fens for the distant views of its towers that dominate the low-lying wetlands called the Fens.
Ely railway station, situated on the Fen Line, is a major train hub with direct trains to Cambridge, London King Cross, London Liverpool Street, Stansted Airport, King Lynn, Ipswich, March, Peterborough, Nottingham, Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, Thetford and Norwich.
In Ely, an apple is most popular festival with variety of apple related food, drink and wares on sale with a wide range of apple games, competitions and activities including apple and spoon races and the ever popular longest apple peel competition.
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