Places to explore near Ely StationEly

Great lantern tower riding above the flat Fens.

0.8 km N

Small cathedral city on an Isle above the Fens, its Ship of the Fens towering over riverside walks, a market and Cromwell's old house.

0.9 km N · Cambridgeshire

The timber-framed Ely home where Cromwell lived while collecting fen tithes, now a museum of his life and the Civil War.

1 km NW

A small fen-village museum of the great diesel and steam engines that pumped the Fens dry, run to thundering life on open days.

6.2 km NE

A preserved 1831 steam beam-engine and its tall chimney beside the Old West River, once scooping fen water up to the drain.

7 km SW

Last fragment of ancient undrained fenland.

8.5 km S

Cambridge to King's Lynn beside the Cam and the Great Ouse, dead level across the Fens under a blue eel waymark.

0.1 km E · Cambridgeshire & Norfolk

The Great Ouse walked source to sea — from a pub garden at Syresham to the old quay at King's Lynn, 150 miles across five counties.

0.1 km E · spans 5 counties

The great slow river of the Fens, navigable from Bedford through Ely's cathedral skyline to Denver Sluice.

0.2 km NE · Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire & Norfolk

Busy riverside inn below Ely's cathedral, popular with boaters for hearty pub food and a terrace over the Great Ouse.

0.3 km N

The Backs, the boathouses and the fen reaches below — Cambridge's river, navigable down to its meeting with the Great Ouse.

4.9 km S · Cambridgeshire

Restored fen-edge tower mill near Ely, its cap and sails put back after long dereliction on the Isle above the Great Ouse.

5.5 km SW

A chalk-fed fen tributary of the Great Ouse, navigable through Prickwillow's black fields to Jude's Ferry.

5.7 km NE · Cambridgeshire & Suffolk

A Site of Special Scientific Interest in Cambridgeshire.

8.7 km NW

Small restored smock mill in Wicken village near the famous fen, a slender white landmark above the sedge.

9.3 km S