Ely is a cathedral city in the East
Cambridgeshire district of Cambridgeshire in the east of
England and 14 miles (23 km) north north-east of Cambridge. Ely has been informally accounted a city by virtue of being the seat of a diocese; its status was confirmed by Royal Charter in 1974, at that time the parish council of the single civil parish that makes upEly was formed during a reorganisation of local government. .