Description
Elm, a village and a parish in the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, on the Wisbech Canal, contiguous with Norfolk, 2 miles SSE from Wisbech. The Coldham station of the G.E.R. is in this parish. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Wisbech. Acreage, 11,402; population of the civil parish, 1779 ; of the ecclesiastical, 789. An ancient earthwork goes hence toward Lincolnshire, and Roman urns and coins have been found. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; net value, £367 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Ely. The church is a large building of stone in the Early English style, and has a tower and spire. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel, and charities worth about £180 a year, and an endowed school with £70 a year.