Chatteris
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Chatteris is a market town and civil parish in the Fenland district of Cambridgeshire, England, situated in the Fens between Huntingdon, March and Ely. The town is in the North East Cambridgeshire parliamentary constituency.
Market Hill, Chatteris
A privately owned 1847 watercolour of Park House before its demolition. Elements of the dissolved Chatteris Abbey can be seen in the walls, including Norman arches at right.
Extant remains of Denny Abbey between Ely and Cambridge, showing similar remnants of adjoining larger and smaller Norman arches, side by side
Chatteris railway station before closure in 1967
Fen skating
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Fen skating is a traditional form of ice skating in the Fenland of England. The Fens of East Anglia, with their easily flooded meadows, form an ideal skating terrain. Bone skates have been found in the area dating back to the medieval period.
James Smart rounds the barrel turn
Fen runners
James Smart
A lamp-post in a field is all that remains of the skating ground in Grantchester Meadows