The OPC is Ali Walker
Contiguous Parishes (our neighbours)
Box – Colerne – Corsham
Websites
The Parish Church of St. Christopher
The pretty early Norman parish church of St Christopher dates, in parts, back to 1097. Although the church fell into disrepair over the centuries it was restored in around 1860 and features it‘s original carved Norman doorway and Norman font. Visitors to the church are welcome and the church is open during daylight hours.
St. Christopher’s Gallery St. Christopher’s Interior Gallery St. Christopher’s Churchyard Gallery
Parish Register Transcripts
Baptisms
Marriages
Burials
Parish Registers held at WSHC
Baptisms 1584-1992
Marriages 1589-1936
Burials 1587-1993
BT’s 1838-1862 held at Bristol Record Office
Parish History
The small parish of Ditteridge is in the north west of Wiltshire approximately 5 ½ miles from Bath and 6 ½ miles from Chippenham. The area covered by the parish is rather fragmented and includes the hamlets of Ditteridge and Alcombe as well non contiguous areas of land such as part of Ashley on the other side of the By Brook valley and the area of Henley, further south on the edge of the village of Box. Up until 1884 Ditteridge was a civil parish in it’s own right but is now incorporated into the civil parish of Box.
Civil Registration
1837 – Present Chippenham Registration District
Buildings and Land
In the hamlet of Ditteridge itself human settlement is believed to go back as far as Neolithic times and there is archealogical evidence of a Roman Villa on the site of Cheney Court. Although Ditteridge is now a small hamlet of only a dozen or so houses there is evidence that it was larger and more important in medieval times as a stopping place for travellers travelling on the nearby Fosse Way. The name Ditteridge is thought to derive from the Anglo Saxon words “dic” meaning ditch and “hrycg” meaning a long narrow hill. In 1086 it appears in the Doomesday book as “Digeric” and by the 16th century the name had evolved to “Ditridge”.
Apart from the church of St Christopher’s the largest building in the hamlet of Ditteridge is Cheney Court, a striking Jacobean manor House. Although situated within the hamlet of Ditteridge Cheney Court lies just on the border with the parish of Box (census records for Cheney Court are listed under the parish of Box). The current Cheney Court was built in the early to mid 17th century by George Speke of Hazelbury on the site of a 15th century house built by the Cheney family. The house served as the dower house for the Spekes of Hazelbury and then passed to the ownership of the Northey Family in the 18th century. After a period as a hotel it now houses a foreign language school
Historically the area has been farmland and this is still the case today.
Landowners
Land Surveys
Maps
Ordnance Surveyor’s Drawings 1813-1814
Crime and Legal Matters
Directories
Education
Emigration and Migration
Employment and Business
Miscellaneous Documents
Non Conformity and Other Places of Worship
People and Parish Notables
Census Returns Transcripts
For Census Returns 1891-1911 please refer to the parish of Box
Elections and Polls
Poll of Freeholders 1772 Voters List 1832 Voters Lists Revisions 1843
Family Notices
Personal Research Items
Tuck Family Research Burial Extracts – This item was donated by Ken Tuck and contains entries that may or may not relate to the Tuck family however they have been published as such. Many refer to Quaker burials found across the county
Poor Law, Charity and the Workhouse
Probate
Inquisitions Post Mortem
Parishioners Wills
War, Conflict and Military Matters
War Memorials & Military Gallery
WWI
British Red Cross/VAD Volunteers
Those Who Served and Survived
War Memorials and Books of Remembrance
Ditteridge War Memorial 1914-1918 (with Box)
