Chettisham
{{Short description|Hamlet in Cambridgeshire, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2025}}
{{More citations needed|date=February 2009}}
{{Infobox UK place
| official_name= Chettisham
| country= England
| region= East of England
| os_grid_reference= TL541823
|coordinates = {{coord|52.42|0.27|display=inline,title}}
| post_town= Ely
| postcode_area= CB
| postcode_district= CB6
| dial_code=
| shire_county= Cambridgeshire
|shire_district= East Cambridgeshire
|population=
|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.[http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/chettisham.htm The church's page at the Cambridgeshire Churches website]
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 {{lang|cy|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 {{lang|ang|hām}} ("home, estate, farm"). Thus the name once meant "farm at the place called Chet".{{Cite book |title=The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2004 |isbn=9780521168557 |editor-last=Watts |editor-first=Victor |location=Cambridge}}, s.v. Chettisham.{{Cite book |last=Coates |first=Richard |title=Celtic Voices, English Places: Studies of the Celtic Impact on Place-Names in Britain |last2=Breeze |first2=Andrew |publisher=Tyas |year=2000 |isbn=1900289415 |location=Stamford}}.{{rp|278}}
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Category:Hamlets in Cambridgeshire
Category:East Cambridgeshire District
Category:Cambridgeshire places with etymologically Brittonic names
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