The Isle of Ely, surrounded by fenland, became the last organised English resistance to the Norman Conquest under Hereward the Wake and the Danish ally Morcar. William built a causeway across the fens. The monks allegedly betrayed a route through to the Normans. Most defenders were captured; Hereward escaped into legend. The fall of Ely effectively ended organised Anglo-Saxon military resistance to the Conquest.
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