1. The House
2. Rates and
Routes
3. The City
of Ely
4.The
City of Cambridge
5. Tours of
Cambridge
6. Excursions from Ely
7. Ely to London and Europe
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Excursions from Ely
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The map is not to scale, but shows the directions to be taken to visit the places listed.
Distances given from Ely are "as the
crow flies" and actual distances by road are greater.
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Cambridge (16 miles) is the principal
destination See
The City of Cambridge
Prickwillow (3 miles) has a Pumping Station museum.
Stretham Old Engine (5 miles) is a beam engine of the early
condensation type, installed in 1831 for draining the fens.
Welney Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (4 miles) attracts ducks
and swans in winter and waders in spring and summer.
Wicken
Fen National Nature Reserve (6 miles). The last remaining undrained
portion of the Fens.
Anglesey Abbey (14 miles) has an
interesting interior and lovely gardens in the biggest area set to
lawn in the country.
Newmarket (14 miles) is the home of
horseracing, with the Horse Museum and the National Stud.
Oxbrugh Hall (18 miles) is everyone's idea of a Robin Hood
castle with turrets and moat and drawbridge, but this is for real:
500 years old, not a Disney concoction!
Bury St.
Edmunds (24 miles) is a town with historic buildings including a hotel
made by Dickens. The ruins of the Abbey are set in a beautiful park.
King's Lynn (26 miles) was once a notable port for the region and
has many historic buildings and two outstanding churches.
Sandringham House (33 miles), is one of the homes of the Royal
Family set in beautiful grounds. The chapel should be
visited.
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Air Displays Duxford (21
miles) is an old R.A.F. station hosting the famous aviation and military
museum, which includes a walk-in Concorde, and gives frequent flying
displays. From Cambridge there is a free bus to Duxford.
Concorde (now
viewable in a hangar) |
R.A.F
Mildenhall (11 miles) The U.S.A.A.F. gives a flying display annually.
Old Warden Aerodrome (39 miles) is a museum of early aircraft with
occasional flying displays.
Train Services As well as to Cambridge and
London there are services to King's Lynn, Bury St Edmunds,
Peterborough (for the North), Norwich, Harwich, for departure by
ship to the Continent.
For Air Connections with UK and Europe see Ely to London and Europe
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