In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Fen Ditton like this:
DITTON-FEN, or Fen-Ditton, a parish in Chesterton district, Cambridgeshire; on the river Cam and the Ely railway, 2¼ miles NNE of Cambridge. Post town, Chesterton, under Cambridge. Acres, 1,862. Real property, £4, 052. Pop., 581. Houses, 133. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £404.* Patron, the Bishop of Ely. The church was recently renovated. There is a national school.
Fen Ditton through time
Fen Ditton is now part of South Cambridgeshire district. Click here for graphs and data of how South Cambridgeshire has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Fen Ditton itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Fen Ditton in South Cambridgeshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/3459
Date accessed: 19th April 2024
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