Coveney is a village and

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northwest of Ely, in the

East Cambridgeshire East Cambridgeshire (locally known as East Cambs) is a local government district in Cambridgeshire, England. Its council is based in the cathedral city of Ely. The district also contains the towns of Littleport and Soham and surrounding rural a ...

district, in

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, England. In 2011 the parish had a population of 424. Coveney is on a small Fen 'island' rising to above sea level, some west from Ely city

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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 Chatteris () is a market town and civil parish in the Fenland district of Cambridgeshire, England, situated in the Fens between Huntingdon, March and Ely. The town is in the North East Cambridgeshire parliamentary constituency. The parish o ...

road at Wentworth crossroads, about south. This by-road, which has a branch to the hamlet of

Wardy Hill Wardy Hill is a hamlet in Coveney civil parish, part of East Cambridgeshire, England. It is also the site of a former Iron Age Hill fort A hillfort is a type of fortification, fortified refuge or defended settlement located to exploit a ri ...

, 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

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of St Peter ad Vincula is a Grade I listed building. Several artefacts from the

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have been found here, including bronze axes, shields and a few swords.

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