Description
Coveney, a village and a parish in the Isle of Ely in Cambridgeshire. The village stands near the New Bedford river, 6 miles NW by W of Ely station on the G.E.R., and it has a post office under Ely; money order and telegraph office, Witchford. The parish includes also the hamlet of Wardy-Hill and the chapelry of Manea. Acreage, 3170; population, 435. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net yearly value, £140 with residence. The church is small but interesting, dating from the 13th century, and contains some curious old carved benches, a very fine ancient reredos in carved wood, and reproductions of scenes from the Passion in high relief, painted and gilded. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
