Ditteridge, Wiltshire

Historical Description

Ditteridge or Ditcheridge, an ecclesiastical parish in Wiltshire, on an affluent of the river Avon, half a mile N by E of Box station on the G.W.R., and 7 miles WSW of Chip-penham. Post town, Box, under Chippenham; money order and telegraph office, Box. Population, 124. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; value, £61. The church is Norman and Early English, and in good condition.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

The register dates from the year 1584.

Findmypast, in association with the Wiltshire Record Office, have the following parish records online for Ditteridge:

Churches

Church of England

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Ditteridge from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Ditteridge)

Maps

Online maps of Ditteridge are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Wiltshire papers online:

• Salisbury and Winchester Journal
• Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette
• Wiltshire Independent
• Swindon Advertiser and North Wilts Chronicle