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 At the Parish Council meeting held on 21st August councillors expressed their disappointment at the delays in making progress with the Amenity Field owing to planning difficulties. Proposals for a parking area and trees for screening have been drawn up and would cost an estimated £4,000.
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July 27th. The Icknield Way Path from the Devil's Ditch
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For the full draft minutes select here.August 2008. Ditton Green resident Mrs Freda Swann at last received commendation for her service as a Land Girl during the early years of the war, when she worked at Camois Hall Farm - picture on the Events page. July 2008 Police warning to horse owners
Saddle and other associated horse tack theft is a continuing problem within the County, we urge all horse owners to be as vigilant as possible when it comes to storing equipment.
Tack Rooms, although making our lives simple are also providing easy access for thieves to large amounts of valuable equipment. We encourage owners to keep saddles etc. at home rather than in yards which are often unoccupied throughout the hours of darkness.
Saddle marking and the use of Smartwater will help to deter thieves and also enable us to reunite owners with their property when it is recovered. Simple solutions such as keeping doors shut and closing gates also help to put off intruders.
If you are offered cheap horse tack for sale please ask youself the question "Where did this come from, has the person got the right to sell this equipment?"
Remember if a deal sounds too good to be true - it usually is! 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
1. Never open e-mail attachments, even from trusted sources, unless you are sure they are genuine, ie. the text in the main body explains the attachment.
2. Beware of clicking on any links from or to dodgy sites, these sometimes pretend to be from reputable organizations, such as banks, Inland Revenue, Amazon or E-Bay. Even the 'No thank you' or 'close' x button can be a trap. Try pressing Control + W to get rid of a doubtful site.
Spam is a curse of the internet and much of it is being sent out by innocent users whose computers have been hijacked by implanted programmes. If your computer is running very slowly or is acting in other strange ways you could be a victim. Running a virus scan with a good anti-virus programme should show up any lurking intruder.
Also please do not pass on any chain-mail type emails containing dire warnings about supposed viruses that will wreck your computer defrost your freezer or curdle your cream. They are invariably hoaxes and at best clog the internet. Even the well intentioned jokes or funny story mass emails can be used as a source to harvest email addresses, resulting in still more spam.
