Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DITTON (Long)

DITTON (Long), a village and a parish in Kingston district, Surrey. The village stands adjacent to the Southwestern railway, near Thames-Ditton r. station and the river Thames, 2¼ miles SSW of Kingston-upon-Thames. The parish includes also the hamlet of Talworth; and its post town is Kingston, under London, S. W. Acres, 2, 116. Real property, £6, 869. Pop., 1, 445. Houses, 274. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £474.* Patron, . New College, Oxford. The church is of brick, and modern.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Long Ditton AP/CP       Kingston RegD/PLU       Surrey AncC
Place names: DITTON     |     DITTON LONG     |     LONG DITTON
Place: Long Ditton

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