Official Name: | Little Chishill |
Static Image: | Little Chishill, St Nicholas - geograph.org.uk - 3305.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | St Nicholas' parish church, seen from the southeast |
Label Position: | top |
Coordinates: | 52.0152°N 0.0665°W |
Os Grid Reference: | TL419372 |
Civil Parish: | Great and Little Chishill |
Shire District: | South Cambridgeshire |
Shire County: | Cambridgeshire |
Region: | East of England |
Country: | England |
Post Town: | Royston |
Postcode Area: | SG |
Postcode District: | SG8 |
Dial Code: | 01763 |
Constituency Westminster: | South Cambridgeshire |
Website: | Great & Little Chishill |
Little Chishill is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Great and Little Chishill, in the South Cambridgeshire district, in the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It is south of the village of Great Chishill.[1] In 1961 the parish had a population of 86.[2] On 1 April 1968 the parish was abolished to form "Great and Little Chishill".[3]
Little Chishill is about NaNmiles east of the county boundary with Hertfordshire and about NaNmiles southeast of Royston.[1]
The Church of England parish church of Saint Nicholas is built of flint with limestone and clunch dressings. Its chancel is 12th-century and was extended in the 13th century. The nave was rebuilt in the 14th century, and the west tower and south porch are late 14th-century. New windows were inserted in the nave in the 15th century, and were replaced in the 19th century. The east window of the chancel and the belfry openings of the west tower are 16th-century. The church is a Grade II* listed building.
The parish's first recorded vicar was John Martyn in 1333.
. Nikolaus Pevsner . 1970 . 1954 . Cambridgeshire . . Harmondsworth . . 0-14-071010-8 . 427–428 .