Chatteris
Chatteris is a civil parish and also among the 4 market towns in the Fenland district of Cambridgeshire, England, located in The Fens between Huntingdon, March and also Ely. The town remains in the North East Cambridgeshire parliamentary constituency. The church of Chatteris is huge, covering 6,099 hectares, as well as for much of its history was an elevated island in the low-lying marsh of the Fens. Mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, the town has proof of negotiation from the Neolithic duration. After a number of fires in the 18th as well as 19th centuries, the majority of the town's housing dates from the late Victorian period onwards, with the tower of the parish church the only medieval building continuing to be. Following the draining of the Fens, beginning in the 17th century and finished in the 19th century, the town's economy has been based upon farming and also related sector. Because of its closeness to Cambridge, Huntingdon and Peterborough, the town has actually emerged as a commuter town. The community had a population of 10,453 at the time of the United Kingdom Census 2011.
