In the Domesday Survey, Great and Little Chishill are taken together and recorded under Essex. A manor was held by Guy under Count Eustace of Boulogne in 1086, another by Roger d'Auberville, and a third by William Cardon under Geoffrey de Mandeville.
The village, sited as it is on the southern tip of Cambridgeshire with Essex a mile to the E and Hertfordhire a mile to the W was recorded under Essex in the Domesday Survey and remained in that county until the boundary was moved in 1895, shifting it into Cambridgeshire. Similarly the diocesan boundary changed and the Chishills have moved from London to Rochester, then St Albans before ending up in Chelmsford.