Manea /ˈmeɪniː/ is a village and civil parish in the District of Fenland, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England.

[1] Landmarks are Manea railway station and RSPB Welches Dam nature reserve on the Ouse Washes.

Stonea Camp, an Iron Age hill fort is located approximately 1 mile west of the village.

In the seventeenth century, as part of a programme to drain the Fens, Charles I planned to build a new town and summer palace, to be called Charlemont.

It was based on the ideas of Robert Owen, a utopian socialist and founded by local farmer William Hodson.

A model of the colony and copies of the Working Bee are on display at Octavia Hill's Birthplace House, Wisbech.

Hodson was fined £10 and Thomas Golding £1 for having on 13 February assaulted Maria Ward, a candidate for admission to the colony.