Chatteris
Chatteris is a civil church as well as among the 4 market communities in the Fenland district of Cambridgeshire, England, positioned in The Fens between Huntingdon, March as well as Ely. The town remains in the North East Cambridgeshire parliamentary constituency. The parish of Chatteris is large, covering 6,099 hectares, as well as for much of its background was a raised island in the low-lying marsh of the Fens. Pointed out in the Domesday Book of 1086, the community has evidence of settlement from the Neolithic duration. After numerous fires in the 18th and also 19th centuries, most of the town's real estate days from the late Victorian period onwards, with the tower of the parish church the only medieval building continuing to be. Complying with the draining pipes of the Fens, beginning in the 17th century and also completed in the 19th century, the town's economic situation has actually been based on farming and associated sector. Because of its proximity to Cambridge, Huntingdon and also Peterborough, the community has emerged as a commuter town. The town had a population of 10,453 at the time of the UK Census 2011.