Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DITTERIDGE, or Ditcheridge

DITTERIDGE, or Ditcheridge, a parish in Chippenham district, Wilts; on an affluent of the river Avon, and on the Great Western railway, ½ a mile N by E of Box r. station, and 7 miles WSW of Chippenham. Post town, Box, under Chippenham. Acres, 374. Rated property, £550. Pop., 110. Houses, 25. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £131. Patron, W. Northey, Esq. The church is Norman and early English, in good condition.


(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: Ditteridge Parish       Chippenham Poor Law Union/Registration District       Wiltshire Ancient County
Place names: DITCHERIDGE     |     DITTERIDGE     |     DITTERIDGE OR DITCHERIDGE
Place: Ditteridge

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