| Official Name: | Chettisham |
| Country: | England |
| Region: | East of England |
| Os Grid Reference: | TL541823 |
| Coordinates: | 52.42°N 0.27°W |
| Post Town: | Ely |
| Postcode Area: | CB |
| Postcode District: | CB6 |
| Hide Services: | Yes |
| Static Image: | St. Michael and All Angels, Chettisham - geograph.org.uk - 280993.jpg |
| Static Image Width: | 250px |
| Static Image Caption: | St. Michael and All Angels, Chettisham |
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]
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 Welsh: 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 English, Old (ca.450-1100);: hām ("home, estate, farm"). Thus the name once meant "farm at the place called Chet".[2] [3]