Chettisham

Chettisham
Chettisham
	St. Michael and All Angels, Chettisham
	Chettisham Location within Cambridgeshire
OS grid reference	TL541823
District	East Cambridgeshire;
Shire county	Cambridgeshire;
Region	East;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Ely
Postcode district	CB6
	List of places UK England Cambridgeshire 52°25′N 0°16′E / 52.42°N 0.27°E

Chettisham is a hamlet in East Cambridgeshire between Ely and Littleport. The main claim to fame is St. Michael church.

There are some pictures and a description of the church at the Cambridgeshire Churches website.^[1]

Etymology

The name Chettisham is first attested around 1170, as Chetesham. The first element is thought to derive from the Common Brittonic word that survives in modern Welsh as coed ("wood"). This became a place-name in its own right. Adopted into Old English, that place-name (itself now lost) was then included (in the genitive case) in the name of a neighbouring settlement though the addition of the Old English word hām ("home, estate, farm"). Thus the name once meant "farm at the place called Chet".^[2]^[3]^: 278

References

^ The church's page at the Cambridgeshire Churches website
^ Watts, Victor, ed. (2004). The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521168557., s.v. Chettisham.
^ Coates, Richard; Breeze, Andrew (2000). Celtic Voices, English Places: Studies of the Celtic Impact on Place-Names in Britain. Stamford: Tyas. ISBN 1900289415..