Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DITTON-WOOD

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.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Newmarket RegD/PLU       Cambridgeshire AncC
Place: Wood Ditton

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