Pricing & demandEly Cathedral
The cathedral’s visitor page lists adult tickets at £14, with children under 16 free when in a family group and no separate family price. An annual pass is available by upgrading on the day at no extra cost, giving free ground floor entry for a year, though not for concerts, events or tours. The Stained Glass Museum costs £6.50 on top from Monday to Saturday, making £20.50 for both by our arithmetic. The page gives no concession price, no tour prices and no date.
Why might a cathedral let visitors upgrade to a year’s pass at no extra cost, and what would you need to know to judge whether it works? Practise this in AO2 Application.
Interpreting numbersOliver Cromwell’s House
The house’s visit page lists adults at £8.20, children aged 6 to 16 at £5.70 and a family ticket for 2 adults and up to 3 children at £23.60, about 30% below buying the five tickets separately, by our arithmetic. A joint ticket with Ely Museum is £14.00 a person, and the house doubles as Ely’s Tourist Information Centre. It mentions a Residents Scheme without giving details. The page doesn’t name the operator and gives no date or visitor numbers.
The family ticket is about 30% cheaper than five separate tickets. Who benefits, and what does the attraction gain? Step by step in AO3 Analysis.
Strategy & stakeholdersEly City Council precept
East Cambridgeshire District Council’s 2026/27 schedule shows Ely’s precept at £847,235 and a Band D parish amount of £109.80, which implies about 7,700 Band D equivalent homes by our arithmetic. Soham’s Band D parish amount is £121.86 and Littleport’s £179.01, so Littleport is about 63% above Ely. Ely’s total Band D is £2,479.89, of which the parish part is about 4% by our arithmetic. The schedule shows no 2025/26 comparison and we haven’t read the full agenda.
Should a city council hold its precept down while neighbouring parishes charge more, and who gains or loses? A real judgement for AO4 Evaluation.
Ely’s economy in the classroom
Wikipedia’s 2021 census list gives 20,112 for the Ely built-up area. A cathedral, a historic house and a city council give students real contexts for pricing, discounts and public money. We tie these themes to topics on the specification.
Sources: Wikipedia, list of settlements in Cambridgeshire; Ely Cathedral, visitor tickets and tours; Oliver Cromwell’s House, your visit; East Cambridgeshire District Council, 2026/27 precept schedule. The £20.50, 30%, 7,700, 63% and 4% figures are our arithmetic, and the two visitor pages are undated.
