DITTON (FEN), a parish in the hundred of FLENDISH,
county of CAMBRIDGE, 2 miles (N.E. by E.) from
Cambridge, containing 461 inhabitants. The living is
a rectory, rated in the king's books at £26. 12. I,, and
in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Bishop
of Ely. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. A market,
now disused, was granted, in 1270, to one of the bishops
of Ely, who resided at Bigging, in this parish. A
charity school was founded, in 1729, by Elizabeth March,
and endowed with the fifth part of an estate, now producing
about £100 per annum. An almshouse for six
poor widows was built by one of the Willys family, in
1665.