Towns, Cities, Villages and Hamlets

Samuel Lewis's Topographical
Gazeetter 1831

CHETTISHAM, a chapelry in the parish of ST. MARY, city and Isle of ELY, county of CAMBRIDGE, miles (N. by w.) from Ely, containing 91 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Ely, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Ely. The chapel is dedicated to St. Michael..

Domesday Book Entry

CHETTISHAM is a hamlet and chapelry in the parish of Ely St. Mary, situate about two miles north west from Ely. Its acreage is included with Ely; and its population is about fifty only. The township contains only six or eight houses. The Chapel is a plain building; the living is a perpetual curacy in the patronage of the dean and chapter of Ely. The tithes are included with those of Ely, and the value of the living, as returned, £70 per annum."

[Extract from 'A BRIEF HISTORY OF ELY and neighbouring villages in the Isle' by J.H. Clements (1868)]

The church of St. Michael and All Angels is a small but ancient building of rubble in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch amd a western turret containing one bell; the church was restored in 1889, and a new roof added at a cost of £799: there are 79 sittings, nearly all being free. The register of baptisms dates from 1701 and marriages 1754; burials are registered at St. Mary's in Ely.

[Extract from Kelly's Directory - Cambridgeshire - 1929]