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CHATTERIS

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 9 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHATTERIS , a See also:

market See also:town in the See also:Wisbech See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Cambridgeshire, See also:England, 252 M. N. by W. of See also:Cam-See also:bridge by the See also:Great Eastern railway. Pop. of See also:urban See also:district (1901) 4711. It lies in the midst of the See also:flat Fen See also:country. The See also:church of St See also:Peter is principally Decorated; and there are fragments of a See also:Benedictine See also:convent founded in the loth See also:century and rebuilt after See also:fire in the first See also:half of the 14th. The town has breweries, and See also:engineering and rope-making See also:works. To the See also:north runs the great See also:Forty-See also:foot Drain, also called Vermuyden's. after the Dutch engineer whose name is associated with the fen drainage works of the See also:middle of the 17th century.

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