Chatteris is a civil parish and among the 4 market communities in the Fenland district of Cambridgeshire, England, positioned in The Fens between Huntingdon, March as well as Ely. The community remains in the North East Cambridgeshire legislative constituency. The church of Chatteris is big, covering 6,099 hectares, and also for much of its background was an elevated island in the low-lying wetland of the Fens. Mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, the town has proof of negotiation from the Neolithic period. After numerous fires in the 18th and also 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 structure remaining. Adhering to the draining of the Fens, beginning in the 17th century and also completed in the 19th century, the community's economic situation has been based upon farming as well as related industry. As a result of its proximity to Cambridge, Huntingdon as well as Peterborough, the community has become a commuter community. The community had a population of 10,453 at the time of the UK Census 2011.