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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Ely like this:
ELY, a hamlet in Llandaff parish, Glamorgan; on the river Ely, and on the South Wales railway, 2¼ miles W of Cardiff. It has a station on the railway, a post office under Cardiff, and a fair on 22 July. Real property, £1, 160. Pop., 224.
Ely is now part of CARDIFF District. Click here for graphs and data of how CARDIFF has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Ely itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Ely, in Cardiff and Glamorgan | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25654
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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