Woodditton

Woodditton

Woodditton

Human settlement in England

Woodditton is a village and civil parish in East Cambridgeshire, England. The other settlements in the parish are Ditton Green, Little Ditton and Saxon Street. At the time of the 2001 census, the parish's population (including Kirtling) was 1,789.[2] In 2011, the population was recorded as 1,818.[1]

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Woodditton lies at the southeastern end of the Devil's Dyke, a defensive earthwork thought to be of Anglo-Saxon origin.

The Lord of the Manor of Woodditton in the later 16th century was Sir Robert Cotton, Knt., a younger son of the Lord of the Manor of Landwade, Cambridgshire.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    "Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics. Area: Woodditton (Parish)". ONS. 2013. Retrieved 2 February 2013.
  2. [2]
    Office for National Statistics: Woodditton CP: Parish he /adcounts. Retrieved 13 December 2009
  3. [3]
    The Baronetage of England: Or The History of the English Baronets, and Such Baronets of Scotland, as are of English Families; with Genealogical Tables, and Engravings of Their Coats of Arms, by Rev. William Betham, London, 1805, vol.1, p.403.

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