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City in Cambridgeshire, England, on the Great
Ouse River 24 km/15 mi NE of Cambridge;
population (1983) 11,030. It has sugar beet,
paper, and engineering factories. history It
was the chief town of the former
administrative district of the Isle of Ely,
so called because the area was once cut off
from the surrounding countryside by the fens.
Hereward the Wake had his stronghold here.
The 11th-century cathedral is one of the
largest in England. At the annual feast of St
Ethelreda (Audrey), founder of a religious
community at Ely in the 7th century, cheap,
low-quality souvenirs were sold; the word
`tawdry', a corruption of St Audrey, derives
from this practice.