Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Ely. You may be able to find further references to Ely in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Ely	hundred	Bartholomew
ELY	a city and several territorial tracts	Imperial
Ely, Isle of (or Cambridgeshire Fens)	liberty	Bartholomew

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Ely.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Chettisham	ecclesiastical district with railway station	Bartholomew
CHETTISHAM, or Chittisham	a chapelry	Imperial
STUNTNEY	a chapelry	Imperial
WITCHAM-GRAVEL	a hamlet	Imperial

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Ely within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
William Camden	Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	14
Daniel Defoe	Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands	5
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	4
Arthur Young	1776 Tour from Essex to Shropshire	4
William Camden	Essex and Suffolk	3
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Cambridge to Lichfield	3
Celia Fiennes	Buckinghamshire, Oxford and Chichester	2
Arthur Young	1791 Tour from Cambridgeshire to Birmingham	2
George Borrow	Introduction; Norfolk to Chester	1
William Camden	The Division of Britaine	1
William Camden	Huntingdon and Northampton	1
Daniel Defoe	Appendix to the second volume	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 10: Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland	1
John Wesley	1774-6: Wesley Arrested; A Terrible Ride; A Methodist Isaac Newton; the American War	1
Thomas Pennant	Combe Abbey to Stow Nine Churches	1
Thomas Pennant	Luton to Hatfield	1
Arthur Young	1791 Tour from Birmingham to Suffolk	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Chettisham	0	2
Prickwillow	0	1
Stuntney	0	2
Soham	3	2
Thetford	0	2
Witchford	0	3
Littleport	1	2
Downham	4	2
Grunty Fen	0	2
Isleham	1	2
Redmere	0	2
Wentworth	0	3
Stretham	3	2
Wicken	1	2
Spinney	0	2
Coveney	0	2
Little Ouse	0	2
Feltwell Anchor	0	1
Witcham	0	3
Bedford Level	0	2