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DITTON-WOOD, a parish in Newmarket district, Cambridge; at the south end of the Devil's Ditch, near the Newmarket railway, 3 miles S by E of Newmarket. Post town, Newmarket. Acres, 4, 899. Real property, £8, 026. Pop., 1, 375. Houses, 265. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £250. Patron, the Duke of Rutland. The church is old. There are a P. Methodist chapel and a national school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Newmarket Poor Law Union/Registration District Cambridgeshire Ancient County |
| Place: | Wood Ditton |
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