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| Chettisham | |
|---|---|
 St. Michael and All Angels, Chettisham | |
  Chettisham Location withinCambridgeshire | |
| OS grid reference | TL541823 |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Ely |
| Postcode district | CB6 |
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Chettisham is a hamlet inEast Cambridgeshire betweenEly andLittleport. 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 nameChettisham is first attested around 1170, asChetesham. The first element is thought to derive from theCommon Brittonic word that survives in modern Welsh ascoed ("wood"). This became a place-name in its own right. Adopted intoOld English, that place-name (itself now lost) was then included (in thegenitive case) in the name of a neighbouring settlement though the addition of the Old English wordhām ("home, estate, farm"). Thus the name once meant "farm at the place calledChet".[2][3]: 278
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