Description
Wood Ditton, a village and a parish in Cambridgeshire, 3 1/2 miles from Newmarket station on the G.E.R., with a post office under Newmarket; money order and telegraph office, Newmarket. The parish contains the hamlets of Ditton Green, Little Ditton, Saxon Street, and part of Newmarket. Acreage, 4852; population, 2048, but without the Newmarket portion only 817. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; gross value, £240 with residence. The church is a very ancient building of flint in the Early English style. There are Baptist, Primitive Methodist, and Congregational chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
