Chatteris
Chatteris is a civil parish and among the 4 market communities in the Fenland district of Cambridgeshire, England, situated in The Fens between Huntingdon, March and also Ely. The town is 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 marsh of the Fens. Discussed in the Domesday Book of 1086, the town has evidence of negotiation from the Neolithic period. After several fires in the 18th as well as 19th centuries, most of the town's housing dates from the late Victorian period onwards, with the tower of the parish church the only middle ages building continuing to be. Complying with the draining of the Fens, beginning in the 17th century as well as completed in the 19th century, the community's economic climate has actually been based upon agriculture as well as related market. Because of its distance to Cambridge, Huntingdon and also Peterborough, the community has actually emerged as a commuter community. The town had a population of 10,453 at the time of the United Kingdom Census 2011.
