November 19, 2010

Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
Attention: Catherine Brown
100 F Street, NE
Washington, D.C. 20549

RE:  Chesapeake Utilities Corporation (the “Company”)
Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A
Filed March 31, 2010
File No. 001-11590

Dear Ms. Brown:

This letter is to acknowledge receipt of the comment letter from the staff (the “Staff”) of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission dated November 8, 2010, regarding the Staff’s review of our response dated October 15, 2010 to the Staff’s comment letter dated September 17, 2010 with respect to the Company’s Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A, filed March 31, 2010.

We respectfully request an extension of the time period in which to respond to the Staff’s comment letter until Friday, December 3, 2010.

If you have any questions or comments regarding the foregoing, please contact our counsel, Jeffrey Decker of Baker & Hostetler LLP at (407) 649-4017.

Sincerely,
 

/s/ Beth W. Cooper  

Beth W. Cooper 

Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer 

909 Silver Lake Boulevard, Dover, Delaware 19904, 302.734.6799, 302.734.6750/fax