News, views, events and information about Wood Ditton, Cambridgeshire, England together with nearby villages
News, views, events and information about Wood Ditton, Cambridgeshire, England together with nearby villages
This is the Wood Ditton with Saxon Street community website for anyone with an interest in the village, whether resident or with present or past connections. Through our Guest Book or e-mail links you can contact relatives or friends from anywhere in the world and through the 'Events' page get an update on what is happening in and around Wood Ditton.
Entries range from frivolous to serious. You will find pages on village history, village people and various aspects of the village as it is today, including Parish Council meetings.
Contributions to the Guest Book or Comments are welcomed. The site is here to provide a service to the community and is frequently updated, with pictures reflecting the passing months. Particular attention has been paid to ease of navigation between the various pages. If the site doesn't provide what you are looking for do let the webmaster know.
SITE INDEX The Revd Ann Gurner is to be officially licensed as Priest-in-Charge of The Link Parishes on 9th July. For a profile and picture select here The proposed plan for Stansted Airport does affect the parish. The Campaign for Rural Peace has a website showing the existing and proposed flight paths select here (on the opening page check the buttons for the proposed Stansted approach flight paths).
Frequently used links are displayed bold red for easy location
May 2nd. The Wood Ditton bluebells once again perform on time, these by the Devil's Ditch
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See also a letter from the Rural Peace campaign organizers. Go to the latest Comments & Discussion page of this website. Arrangements are well in hand for Wood Ditton's annual Church Fete at Parsonage Farm, to be held on Saturday 7th June.
The gates will open at 12 pm and a BBQ will be available from the start; the official opening will be carried out at 1 pm by the present Newmarket Town Mayor, Councillor Bill Burch.
It's Derby Day and the fete will have its own Derby theme. Ladies are invited to dress for the occasion, there will be a competition for the best dressed 'jockey' and we will have our own Derby race with an opportunity to bet on your chosen horse.
All the favourite stalls will be there plus some new ones. By popular request the main event of the afternoon will be the return of the Newmarket School of Dance. It is nice to think that Wood Ditton and other local villages are quiet places generally free from the sort of crimes that affect the towns. Unfortunately this is no longer so and there has been a spate of local burglaries. Police presence is thinly spread but good Neighbourhood Watch is a proven effective way of reducing this risk. Cover in the villages varies from good to non-existent and it just needs more public spirited villagers to get involved.
The East Cambridgeshire Neighbourhood Watch Association is there to help and has a website http://eastcambsnhw.google pages.com/home Cambridgeshire Walks - 50 walks in the county with maps www.walkingincambridgeshire.co.uk/Have you ever wondered what life was like in Wood Ditton before, during and after World War II. Rodney Vincent's book 'A Tanner Will Do' has been re-published as a new improved edition. For more details select here
See Wood Ditton from satellite! The Google Earth website gives amazing views of the world. You really need broadband to view this site but take a look at Wood Ditton as seen from space by going to our 'Links to related sites' page from INDEX below, and click on the link near the top of the page.For anyone interested in Wood Ditton's history the results of painstaking and detailed research are availabe from 'British History Online'. The site also covers Kirtling and Cheveley among other Cambridgeshire villages. To go directly to the Wood Ditton entries click on the link at the foot of our History page. Keep your computer safe. You should have up to date anti-virus protection and a firewall but if nothing else, follow two cardinal rules to keep nasties away from your computer:
And for some Wood Ditton history pictures select here
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