In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Wood Ditton like this:
DITTON-WOOD, a parish in Newmarket district, Cambridge; at the south end of the Devil's Ditch, near the Newmarket railway, 3 miles S by E of Newmarket. Post town, Newmarket. Acres, 4, 899. Real property, £8, 026. Pop., 1, 375. Houses, 265. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £250. Patron, the Duke of Rutland. The church is old. There are a P. Methodist chapel and a national school.
Wood Ditton through time
Wood Ditton is now part of East Cambridgeshire district. Click here for graphs and data of how East Cambridgeshire has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Wood Ditton itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Wood Ditton in East Cambridgeshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/2193
Date accessed: 19th April 2024
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