which Clement Freud lived when he was Member of Parliament for the Isle of Ely in the 1970s and early 1980s. From Monday to Saturday Mepal has a two-hourly bus service (no Sunday service) to Chatteris, Ely and Cambridge. Botanical Adjacent to St Mary's church is a small woodland notable for the old elm trees, believed to be Plot elm hybrid. See also Cornelius Vermuyden Mepal Airfield Old Bedford River New Bedford River References External links Mepal Village Villages in Cambridgeshire Civil parishes in Cambridgeshire East Cambridgeshire District