 It is privately managed by its own body of commissioners and beadles.Ely Place is sometimes claimed to have been an exclave of Cambridgeshire due to that county containing the medieval abbey at Ely, and Ely Place having been the site of the London residence of the Bishops of Ely who regularly lived on the site from 1290 to 1772.However, Ely Place was never formally part of the county of Cambridgeshire, or outside the Metropolitan Police area, and had no special status beyond being an extra-parochial area.