Chatteris
Chatteris is a civil church and also one of the 4 market towns in the Fenland district of Cambridgeshire, England, situated in The Fens in between Huntingdon, March and Ely. The town is in the North East Cambridgeshire legislative constituency. The parish of Chatteris is large, covering 6,099 hectares, and for much of its background was a raised island in the low-lying marsh of the Fens. Discussed in the Domesday Book of 1086, the town has evidence of settlement from the Neolithic period. After a number of fires in the 18th as well as 19th centuries, most of the community's real estate days from the late Victorian period onwards, with the tower of the parish church the only medieval structure continuing to be. Following the draining pipes of the Fens, starting in the 17th century as well as completed in the 19th century, the community's economic climate has been based on farming and related industry. Because of its distance to Cambridge, Huntingdon and also Peterborough, the town has become a commuter town. The town had a population of 10,453 at the time of the United Kingdom Census 2011.