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Isle of Ely

Isle of Ely proper noun: a historical area in northern Cambridgeshire, England; administered as its own county between 1890 and 1965, when it was absorbed into Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely.

Proper noun

Isle of Ely

  1. A historical area in northern Cambridgeshire, England; administered as its own county between 1890 and 1965, when it was absorbed into Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely.

Questions about Isle of Ely

What does Isle of Ely mean?
Isle of Ely means a historical area in northern Cambridgeshire, England; administered as its own county between 1890 and 1965, when it was absorbed into Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely.
What part of speech is Isle of Ely?
Isle of Ely is a proper noun.

Words near Isle of Ely in the dictionary

  1. Isle au Haut
  2. Isle aux Morts
  3. Isle de Jean Charles
  4. Isle of Arran
  5. Isle of Dogs
  6. Isle of Ely
  7. Isle of Grain
  8. Isle of Lewis
  9. Isle of Man
  10. Isle of Oxney
  11. Isle of Pines

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