Peck’s Yard is a good example of one of the yards of labourer’s cottages, which were found throughout the town in the nineteenth century.
This yard was known for a time as Earls Place and, though quite modernised, gives a great idea of the topology of Chatteris in the past and how its layout may have changed over time.
Photographs: now and then
Entrance to Peck’s Yard, 2020. Photo: Lawrence Weetman Pecks Yard nameplate. Photo: Brian Hemment Peck’s Yard, 2020. Photo: Lawrence Weetman Houses in Pecks Yard, approx 1980. Photo: Chatteris Community Archive / R Edwards
Where is it?
Location and directions: Google Maps
Find out more
- Peck’s Yard on Google Streetview
- Peck’s Yard on the Chatteris Community Archive
Taking a digital tour of Chatteris?
If you’re taking a Digital Tour of Chatteris, cross the High Street to Ash Grove where you’ll see a white building that that sits parallel to Ash Grove itself. This is our next stop – the former Quaker Meeting House.
If you are taking the short version of the Digital Tour and began at Church Lane, you’re now at the halfway point of the tour.