Official Name: | Woodditton |
Country: | England |
Region: | East of England |
Os Grid Reference: | TL6658 |
Coordinates: | 52.1996°N 0.4345°W |
Label Position: | left |
Post Town: | Newmarket |
Postcode Area: | CB |
Postcode District: | CB8 |
Dial Code: | 01638 |
Shire County: | Cambridgeshire |
Shire District: | East Cambridgeshire |
Population: | 1,818 |
Population Ref: | (2011)[1] |
Static Image: | UK SaxonStreet.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | Village sign in Saxon Street |
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.
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]