Description
Diddington, a village and a parish in Huntingdonshire, near the river Ouse, 2 miles S from Buckden station on the M.R., H SW from Offord station on the G.N.R., 4 N from St Neot's, and 5 SW from Huntingdon. The parish includes part of Boughton hamlet, and its post town is Huntingdon ; money order and telegraph office, Buckden. Acreage, 1298 ; population, 184. Diddington Hall, the seat of the Thornhill family, is the chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; net yearly value, £150 with residence. Patron, Merton College, Oxford. The church is of the 14th century, and is a small building of brick and stone in the Early English and Perpendicular styles.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
