Chatteris Mini Guide
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to King Edward School in Railway Lane, then became St Peter’s Peter’s St became then Lane, Railway in School Edward King to view of the other side of the Crown Theatre roof. roof. Theatre Crown the of side other the of view open until 1927 (Victoria County History) after which boys transferred transferred boys which after History) County (Victoria 1927 until open 6 are modest cottages. No 2 at the junction with West Park Street fight. At the rear of the Hotel is a large yard from which there is a a is there which from yard large a is Hotel the of rear the At fight. th the evacuees to the town in World War 2. War World in town the to evacuees the of 200 boys and 150 girls on Weekdays and Sundays. This remained This Sundays. and Weekdays on girls 150 and boys 200 of was built in the mid 19 century. All of these buildings, along with Turning right into East Park Street, past hotel and trained there for a big championship championship big a for there trained and hotel was used as a place for feeding the first of of first the feeding for place a as used was 1819 the school was built by the National Society for the education education the for Society National the by built was school the 1819 many others in Chatteris are ‘listed’. Turn left now into Park Street the Emmanuel Church and the Police Station you will reach the In the 1950s the boxer Freddie Mills stayed at the the at stayed Mills Freddie boxer the 1950s the In on the site of the present road. The building building The road. present the of site the on is built on the site of the old school room and former parish room. In In room. parish former and room school old the of site the on built is where you will rejoin the longer trail at no 24. Salvation Army Fortress which was built with a crenellated frontage 5.30pm every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Friday. and Wednesday Monday, every 5.30pm graveyard was sited beyond the brick wall wall brick the beyond sited was graveyard The town trail starts at the car park in Church Lane. This car park park car This Lane. Church in park car the at starts trail town The between 1900 and 1904. and Saturday and for Wisbech and March at at March and Wisbech for and Saturday and building is now privately owned. A small small A owned. privately now is building For the longer trail, continue down Station Street, past left for London at 9am every Tuesday, Thursday Thursday Tuesday, every 9am at London for left in Chatteris from 1703 until the 1920s. The The 1920s. the until 1703 from Chatteris in Windmill Mews until you reach no 23 - a large house called The Town Trail Town The To the right is Victoria Street, a road constructed across what ’ which which ’ Defiance The ‘ coach six-horse the of point (Quakers) Meeting House. Friends had met met had Friends House. Meeting (Quakers) Homeland, set behind a wall and trees. It has an elaborate stone was once the site of the Abbey of St Mary. The Abbey, founded The George Hotel was once the departure departure the once was Hotel George The which was once the Society of Friends Friends of Society the once was which gated arch believed to contain materials from the old abbey, of circa 980AD by Aelfwen , was situated on what is now the North way along on the left is a white building building white a is left the on along way which you will find out more later. side of Victoria Street with the grounds surrounded by walls of which Cross the road into Ash Grove. A short short A Grove. Ash into road the Cross Great Fire of Chatteris. of Fire Great for offices. offices. for none remain. All the stonework in existing walls has been reused. Market Hill passing what was once the Crown Pub. It is now used used now is It Pub. Crown the once was what passing Hill Market station and through the area affected by the the by affected area the through and station The perimeter of the Abbey can be traced along the four Park Further down the road, just past no 51, there is a driveway the Babbling Brook” fame started his career. Walk back round to to round back Walk career. his started fame Brook” Babbling the found throughout the town in the nineteenth century. nineteenth the in town the throughout found leading to what was once Mill House. This listed building, which Streets. The abbey buildings were dismantled and the stone reused This is the roof of the Crown theatre where Donald Pears of “By “By of Pears Donald where theatre Crown the of roof the is This follows a route down to the site of the railway railway the of site the to down route a follows example of one of the yards of labourer’s cottages, which were were which cottages, labourer’s of yards the of one of example according to a plaque dates to 1807 was once the miller’s after the dissolution in 1538 with the exception of the block on the Look behind you at the roof above the Working Men’s club. club. Men’s Working the above roof the at you behind Look as Earls Place and though quite modernised, is still a good good a still is modernised, quite though and Place Earls as the stories behind them. The extended trail trail extended The them. behind stories the cottage of Larratts Mill. No trace remains of the octagonal tower western side of the cloisters which was converted into Park House hand side just past Furrowfields. This yard was known for a time time a for known was yard This Furrowfields. past just side hand and adjacent barn to the north which were demolished a few and enlarged in the seventeenth century. In 1847 this building was the older and more interesting buildings, and and buildings, interesting more and older the Continue down the High Street to Pecks Yard on the right right the on Yard Pecks to Street High the down Continue mortician’s slab. mortician’s years ago. pulled down and much of the stone was used in the building of fixed on the wall. It was once a a once was It wall. the on fixed walk around Chatteris highlighting some of of some highlighting Chatteris around walk Seymour Place, a terrace of 5 cottages on London Road. Street there is a shallow bath like slab slab like bath shallow a is there Street machine in the country. country. the in machine Near the end of Station Street on the right was the Railway The town trail leaflet provides the basis for a a for basis the provides leaflet trail town The bible. Around the corner in Station Station in corner the Around bible. the proprietor of Coles Engineering made the first carrot washing washing carrot first the made Engineering Coles of proprietor the Tavern which is now residential accommodation. Just past this on Continue along East Park Street as it bends to the right and church, kept the keys and a copy of the the of copy a and keys the kept church, was originally detached, still remains as a marker. Charles Cole Cole Charles marker. a as remains still detached, originally was the same side is Old Station Yard, a reminder that this was once continue to the junction with South Park Street. Walk back along the country, which being close to the the to close being which country, the being converted into apartments. The tall chimneystack, which which chimneystack, tall The apartments. into converted being the site of the Railway Station. The A141 March to Huntingdon East Park Street and cross to St Martins Road. At one time this road Peterborough to Newmarket. to Peterborough was one of many of that name around around name that of many of one was House, which became Coles Engineering Works before recently recently before Works Engineering Coles became which House, road runs along what was once the was called Smarts Road but it was changed by the residents to its is the Cross Keys 17 Keys Cross the is century inn. This This inn. century Walk. On the left is the Old Brewery, now known as Lindsells Lindsells as known now Brewery, Old the is left the On Walk. Western Counties and from from and Counties Western th railway track which suffered as a present name in the Mid 1900s. Just along from the Palace and opposite the War Memorial Memorial War the opposite and Palace the from along Just Further down the High Street on the same side is Lindsells Lindsells is side same the on Street High the down Further result of the Beeching cuts. Across Huntingdon and the the and Huntingdon the bypass is Stainless Metalcraft A short way down St Martins Road, on the left, is a house the first properly sprung floor in the country. the in floor sprung properly first the roads from Norfolk to to Norfolk from roads the auction yard. yard. auction the formerly Chatteris Engineering. It called ‘Old Forge’. This is the only indication that a blacksmith’s The cinema was then transformed into a ballroom in 1937. It had had It 1937. in ballroom a into transformed then was cinema The Seward in the 1970s.