[2] In 1589 the village came to notice when a local woman, Joan Cunny, who was about 80, was accused of witchcraft.

One of her daughters was spared, the other was imprisoned and Cunny was hanged in Chelmsford on 5 July 1589 in line with a 1563 law.

[6] The manor of Stisted also belonged to the monks of Canterbury Cathedral before the reformation.

Stisted parish was a peculiar, held by the Dean of Bocking under the Archbishop of Canterbury, until 1845, when it fell under the jurisdiction of Middlesex.

In 2003, Alan Hurst, the local Member of Parliament denounced an Internet land scheme for selling land in Stisted as if for development, comparing it to a Champagne auction.