"The Fens famously are very low lying, and if you look at the map of what the Fens looked like before they were drained in the 17th Century, Ely was an island.

Ely is only 15 miles from Cambridge, but, even today, when the octagon of the cathedral is silhouetted against the blood-orange sunset of an immense fenland sky, it can seem remote and spooky. The ...

Ely is only 15 miles from Cambridge, but, even today, when the octagon of the cathedral is silhouetted against the blood-orange sunset of an immense fenland sky, it can seem remote and spooky. The ...

ELY, Minn.—The U.S. Forest Service now owns and manages a big island in northern Minnesota. Forty-three-acre Long Island on Burntside Lake near Ely is now part of the Superior National Forest… ...

A Cambridge climate expert has warned Ely will become an island again under current estimates for rising sea levels. British Antarctic Survey scientist Dr Emily Shuckburgh, OBE, recently gave a ...