Ditton

Other current and historical names

Dictune
Holt Hill

Built-Up Area: Ditton
Parish/Community: Ditton
District/Borough: Tonbridge and Malling
County: Kent
Region: South East

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 51°17'55"N 0°27'19"E
Eastings/Northings: 571269, 158381
OS Grid: TQ712583
Mapcode Local: GBR PQR.FY6
Mapcode Global: VHJM5.VM16

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Ditton within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Ditton in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Ditton, par., mid. Kent, 3½ miles NW. of Maidstone, 1073 ac., pop. 336.

Ditton in the Domesday Book

A village in Larkfield hundred, in the county of Kent.

- Overlord in 1066: King Edward
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Esbiorn Bicga
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Bishop Odo of Bayeux
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Haimo the sheriff (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 1 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £8 in 1066; £5 in 1070; £8 in 1086
- Households: 20 villagers; 5 smallholders; 6 slaves
- Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs; 3 men's ploughs (4 plough lands)
- Meadow: 8 acres
- Woodland: 6 swine render
- Pasture: 35 acres
- Churches: 1
- Mills: 1, value 10 shillings

British Place Names

Ditton, Kent

Ditton is a village in Kent

Ditton in historic gazetteers

Ditton in the Domesday Book