Isle of Ely
is really Ely Cathedral, Cambridgeshire
Real place, reimagined
Real-world photo: Wikimedia Commons
How close does the game get to the real place?
In the game
A monastery on an island in the fens of East Anglia, surrounded by marsh and water.
The real place
Ely really was an island in the undrained fens. Its abbey, founded in 673 by Saint Æthelthryth, was destroyed by the Danes around 870. The present cathedral was begun in 1083; its central Octagon is famous.
Visiting
Book an Octagon Tower tour for the view across the flat fens. Ely is under 20 minutes by train from Cambridge.
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