Spellings with an e, along the lines of Cet, Cette, Chet and Chette dominate the record through the thirteenth century and reflect the usual borrowing of this Brittonic word into Old English.

[2][3]: 302 Evidence of Neolithic occupation includes an oval barrow at Scotspoor, in the northeast corner of the parish.

The walls were faced with knapped flint and supported by prominent red-brick buttresses, and the 15th-century windows were replaced by new ones in 13th-century style.

[11] The Chute Causeway is a section of the Roman Road that runs from Winchester northwest to Mildenhall (near Marlborough) and onwards to Cirencester.

At Conholt the road deviates west to avoid the deep Hippenscombe valley, resuming its straight course near Tidcombe.

During the reign of Charles II the bubonic plague struck the parishes of Chute and Vernham Dean.

At Vernham Dean a rector persuaded his parishioners to isolate themselves at the top of the hill along which Chute Causeway runs.

When the time came for him to supply the food and care he had promised, the fear he had of the disease meant he failed to uphold his honour and left the villagers to die.