Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DITTON-FEN, or Fen-Ditton

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.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Fen Ditton AP/CP       Chesterton RegD/PLU       Cambridgeshire AncC
Place names: DITTON FEN     |     DITTON FEN OR FEN DITTON     |     FEN DITTON
Place: Fen Ditton

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