Chatteris is a civil parish and among the four market communities in the Fenland district of Cambridgeshire, England, situated in The Fens between Huntingdon, March and also Ely. The town remains in the North East Cambridgeshire parliamentary constituency. The parish of Chatteris is huge, covering 6,099 hectares, and also for much of its history was a raised island in the low-lying marsh of the Fens. Mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, the community has evidence of settlement from the Neolithic duration. After numerous fires in the 18th and 19th centuries, most of the community's real estate dates from the late Victorian period onwards, with the tower of the parish church the only middle ages building remaining. Following the draining pipes of the Fens, starting in the 17th century as well as completed in the 19th century, the town's economic climate has been based upon farming and also related sector. As a result of its closeness to Cambridge, Huntingdon as well as Peterborough, the town has actually become a traveler community. The town had a population of 10,453 at the time of the United Kingdom Census 2011.