CHATTERIS  , a

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