Best to remember that #Cambridgeshire would most likely have included the #IsleofEly - as it does currently - which consisted an area of marshland likely to contain rather a lot of #eels - hence the name! And local #coopers - makers of barrels - would have supplied barrels in which the eels could be transported live. So the logistics may not have been all that forbidding.
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