Coveney is a village northwest of
Ely in
Cambridgeshire
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.
Coveney is on a small Fen 'island' rising to above sea level, some west from Ely city
as the crow flies
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, but nearly twice that distance by the main road. The village is situated on a by-road which leaves the main Ely–
Chatteris road at Wentworth crossroads, about south. This by-road, which has a branch to the hamlet of
Wardy Hill, west of Coveney village, used to be the only metalled road into the parish. But the
droves across Ely West Fen, by Frogs Abbey, to Downham Hythe, and from Wardy Hill to Witcham have recently been made up for wheeled traffic.
The
Church of England parish church of
St Peter ad Vincula is a Grade I listed building.
Several artefacts from the
late Bronze Age
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have been found here, including bronze axes, shields and a few swords.
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Villages in Cambridgeshire
Civil parishes in Cambridgeshire
East Cambridgeshire District
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