Queen Adelaide, Cambridgeshire

Queen Adelaide
Former chapel of St Etheldreda
Queen Adelaide Queen Adelaide shown within Cambridgeshire
OS grid reference	TL565814
Civil parish	City of Ely
District	East Cambridgeshire
Shire county	Cambridgeshire
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Ely
Postcode district	CB7
Dialling code	01353
Police	Cambridgeshire
Fire	Cambridgeshire
Ambulance	East of England
EU Parliament	East of England
UK Parliament	South East Cambridgeshire
List of places UK England Cambridgeshire

Coordinates: 52°24′35″N 0°18′08″E / 52.4098°N 0.3022°E / 52.4098; 0.3022

Queen Adelaide is a hamlet on the River Great Ouse in the Fens about 1 ¹⁄₂ miles (2.4 km) northeast of Ely, Cambridgeshire (where the population is included), England.

Queen Adelaide sign in the hamlet

The hamlet is named after a pub,^[1] which in turn was named after Queen Adelaide, consort of King William IV. The hamlet did not exist until the 19th century, when the railways reached Ely and the pub was built.

The B1382 road is Queen Adelaide's main street. South of the hamlet is a junction of three railways: the Fen, Breckland and Ely to Peterborough railway lines. Each of the three lines crosses the hamlet's main street with a separate level crossing. West of the hamlet there is also a loop line, the Adelaide Loop,^[1] that the B3182 crosses on a bridge.

Queen Adelaide is in the Church of England parish of Ely Cathedral, which is 2 miles (3 km) away by road, so in 1883 a chapel of ease was built in the hamlet. It was dedicated to St Etheldreda,^[2] who was a 7th-century East Anglian princess and Abbess of Ely. More recently the chapel has been deconsecrated and converted into a private house.

References

1 2 Pugh 1953, pp. 28–33.
↑ Pugh 1953, pp. 82–86.

Sources

Pugh, RB (editor); Atkinson, TD; Hampson, Ethel M; Long, ET; Meekings, CAF; Miller, Edward; Wells, HB; Woodgate, GMG (1953). A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely. Victoria County History. 4: City of Ely; Ely, N. and S. Witchford and Wisbech Hundreds. London: Oxford University Press for the University of London Institute of Historical Research. pp. 28–33, 45–47, 82–86.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Queen Adelaide, Cambridgeshire.

Settlements in East Cambridgeshire

Cities	Ely

Towns	Soham

Villages	Aldreth Ashley Barway Bottisham Brinkley Burwell Chettisham Cheveley Chippenham Coveney Dullingham Fordham Haddenham Isleham Little Downham Little Thetford Littleport Lode Longmeadow Mepal Prickwillow Pymoor Queen Adelaide Reach Stetchworth Stretham Stuntney Sutton Swaffham Bulbeck Swaffham Prior Upware Wicken Wilburton Witcham Witchford Woodditton

Civil parishes	List of civil parishes in Cambridgeshire

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 7/22/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.