Chatteris
Chatteris is a civil church and among the four market communities in the Fenland area of Cambridgeshire, England, situated in The Fens in between Huntingdon, March and also Ely. The community remains in the North East Cambridgeshire parliamentary constituency. The parish of Chatteris is large, covering 6,099 hectares, and also for much of its history was an elevated island in the low-lying wetland of the Fens. Mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, the community has proof of settlement from the Neolithic duration. After several fires in the 18th and also 19th centuries, most of the town's real estate days from the late Victorian period onwards, with the tower of the parish church the only medieval structure continuing to be. Adhering to the draining pipes of the Fens, beginning in the 17th century and completed in the 19th century, the community's economy has actually been based upon agriculture and related sector. As a result of its distance to Cambridge, Huntingdon and also Peterborough, the community has emerged as a commuter town. The community had a population of 10,453 at the time of the United Kingdom Census 2011.
