Cambridgeshire History On The Net

Information about Wood Ditton circa 1900

WOOD DITTON is a parish and village, 3.5 miles south from Newmarket station on the Great Eastern railway, in the Eastern division of the county, hundred of Cheveley, Newmarket union, petty sessional division and county court district, rural deanery of Fordham, archdeaconry of Sudbury and diocese of Ely. In pursuance of the Cambridgeshire and West Suffolk (Newmarket) Confirmation Order, 1895, that part of Wood Ditton parish in Suffolk was added to Newmarket All Saints for civil purposes, but remains administratively in West Suffolk. The church of St. Mary is an ancient edifice of flint in the Early English style, with Perpendicular additions, and consists of chancel, clerestoried and embattled nave, aisles, south porch and a western tower containing 5 bells: the church was restored and reseated in 1897-99 by Col. H.L.B. McCalmont M.P. at aa cost of £5,000 and affords 250 sittings. The register dates from the year 1567. the living is a vicarage, net yearly value £220, with 12 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of Col H.L.B. McCalmont M.P. of Cheveley park, is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is various; subsoil, clay and chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and beans. The area is 4,615 acres; rateable value, £5,417; the population is 1891, chiefly distributed in the hamlets of Ditton Green, Little Ditton and Saxon Street was 817; the population of the ecclesiastical parish in 1891 was 1,006.

Post Office, Ditton Green.- Mark Woollard, sub-post-master. Letters dispatched at 6pm; Sunday, 8.55am. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. Stetchworth is the nearest telegraph & money order office, 2 miles distant.

Guy Rev. Hugh M.A. Vicarage Wiseman Mrs

COMMERCIAL

Ashman Charles, farmer
Barrett henry, beer retailer
Crick Henry, farm bailiff to Mr. Sidney Taylor, Parsonage farm
Gardner Hy. Farmer, church Hall farm
Graham Robert, nurseryman
Hatley Ambrose, beer retailer, shopkeeper & wheelwright
Hodgkinson William Frank, collector of Queen's taxes &schoolmaster
Jennings Chas. Mark, shopkpr. & farmer
Jennings Matthew, miller (wind)
Nunn Charles, butcher
Paine Frederick Charles, farm bailiff to H.L.B. McCalmont M.P. Crockfords (letters through Newmarket)
Paine George John, farmer, Camois Hall farm
Sibley John, farm bailiff to Mr. Martin Gurry
Templer Charles, Blackbirds P.H.
Tweed Peter, shoeing & jobbing smith; & retailer, Cheveley, Newmarket (letters should be sent to last address
Wiseman Matthew George, farmer, assistant overseer & deputy surveyor, Cheveley sub-district of Newmarket union, Cracknells farm
Woollard John, Carpenter

* Kelly's Directory of Cambridgeshire 1900 (London: Kelly's Directories Limited, 1900), p.228.