Chatteris is a civil parish and one of the four market communities in the Fenland area of Cambridgeshire, England, located in The Fens between Huntingdon, March and also Ely. The community remains in the North East Cambridgeshire legislative constituency. The church of Chatteris is huge, covering 6,099 hectares, as well as for much of its history was a raised island in the low-lying marsh of the Fens. Stated in the Domesday Book of 1086, the town has proof of negotiation from the Neolithic period. After a number of fires in the 18th as well as 19th centuries, the majority of the town's real estate dates from the late Victorian period onwards, with the tower of the parish church the only middle ages building staying. Adhering to the draining of the Fens, starting in the 17th century and finished in the 19th century, the community's economy has been based upon agriculture as well as related industry. As a result of its proximity to Cambridge, Huntingdon as well as Peterborough, the community has actually emerged as a traveler town. The community had a population of 10,453 at the time of the UK Census 2011.