{"id":2543,"count":5,"description":"Ely (\/\u02c8i\u02d0li\/ ee-lee) is a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, England. It is 14 miles (23\u00a0km) north-northeast of Cambridge and about 80 miles (129\u00a0km) by road from London.\nEly was for a long time informally considered to be a city by virtue of being the seat of a diocese. In 1974 the status was confirmed by Royal charter on the parish council of the successor parish to Ely Urban District. With a population of 15,102 in 2001, Ely is the second smallest city in England, excluding the City of London.\nThe city's origins lay in the foundation of an abbey in 673 AD, a mile (1.6\u00a0km) to the north of the village of Cratendune on the Isle of Ely, under the protection of St Ethelreda, daughter of King Anna. The abbey was destroyed in 870 by Danish invaders and not rebuilt for over a hundred years. The site was one of the last holdouts in England to the rule of William I, its leader Hereward the Wake remaining independent until his surrender in 1071. Following William's defeat of Hereward he...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/ely\/","name":"Ely","slug":"ely","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/2543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=2543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}