36 Facts About Ditton Kent

Today Ditton Kent has a mixed agricultural and industrial economy, with a wide range of social and leisure facilities.

Name Ditton Kent comes from the Saxon "Dictune" meaning the village situated on the dike, or trench of water.

Ditton Kent has a ford which, along with St Peter's Ad Vincula's Church, is situated in a conservation area on the west of a large green.

In 1798 Ditton Kent was recorded as being within the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Diocese of Rochester, and deanery of Malling.

Ditton Kent Place was built in the late 16th century by the Brewer family and stood on the site now occupied by Troutbeck House.

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Ditton Kent bequeathed Ditton Place to his nephew, Thomas Golding of Ryarsh, who sold it to John Brewer, a prominent lawyer and member of parliament.

Ditton Kent died at Ditton Place in 1856, whereafter it was purchased by Septimus Maitland, a former plantation owner from Jamaica, who substantially remodelled the house around 1860.

Ditton Kent Court was located just to the west of St Peter's Church.

Ditton Kent Court was demolished in 1972 to make way for a modern housing development that bears its name.

William Kempe, the parson of Ditton Kent, was sued for £80 in 1534 for being absent from his parish and for taking a stipend for saying prayers for the souls of the dead.

Ditton Kent is remembered chiefly for his tireless campaigning to improve the lives of farm labourers and hop-pickers.

William Boghurst was an apothecary, and native, of Ditton Kent, who remained in London during the Great Plague of 1665.

Ditton Kent stayed in the city throughout the epidemic, treating by his own account "40,50 or 60 patients a day".

Ditton Kent wrote a book about his experience which, although not printed at the time, was published in 1894 for the Epidemiological Society of London under the title Loimographia: an Account of the Great Plague of London in the year 1665.

Ditton Kent's posthumously published book entitled Poems was much admired and several times reprinted.

Ditton Kent looks but little qualified to insist upon the discipline necessary to be observed at Merchant Tailor's school or to wield the weapons of Dr Busby.

Ditton Kent had been the mortgagee of Thomas Brewer in respect of a number of properties when the latter defaulted.

Ditton Kent's arms were "argent, a cross voided between four lions passant, guardant gules".

Ditton Kent left Ditton Place to his nephew, another Thomas, who seems to have sold it and then repurchased it around 1735.

Ditton Kent gave his name to the Clifford Sheldon Club House, a converted oast house, which subsequently became the Manor and Greenside Oast.

Edward Humphreys, known as Punter Humphreys, who was born in Ditton in 1881, was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket for Kent County Cricket Club between 1899 and 1920.

Ditton Kent played nearly 400 first-class matches and coached cricket after his retirement.

Ditton Kent was an English amateur sportsman who played cricket for Oxford University and Kent County Cricket Club between 1907 and 1910.

Ditton Kent won Blues for golf, rackets and cricket and later represented the Great Britain and Ireland golf team in the Walker Cup in 1922 and 1923.

Ditton Kent served in the Royal Naval Reserve during World War I and the RAF Volunteer Reserve during World War II.

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Ditton Kent has now spent twelve successive seasons ranked inside the top 32.

Ditton Kent reached his first ranking final and won his first ranking title at the 2012 Australian Goldfields Open.

Ditton Kent is situated between the Lower Weald and the Chalk Downs.

Ditton Kent is within the parliamentary constituency of Chatham and Aylesford.

Ditton Kent is a ward in the Tonbridge and Malling local government borough and has two of the 53 seats on the Council.

Parish of Ditton Kent contains a number of agricultural, small commercial and industrial businesses, marking a historical shift from a farming-based community to a modern, mixed economy.

Ditton Kent is five miles from the centre of the county town of Maidstone, which is an important source of employment in the area.

Since 31 May 2009 Ditton Kent has had an officially recognised nature reserve, Ditton Kent Quarry off Kilnbarn Road.

When Ditton Quarry closed down in 1984, quarrying operations had left behind a legacy of a lime-rich soil which formed the foundation of a thriving habitat for plants and wildlife; 140 wildflowers, 18 butterfly species, and 50 bird species have been recorded.

Ditton Kent has various urban open spaces: the New Road 4-acre recreation ground was acquired in 1954 and a second one measuring 11 acres was provided in the early 1970s, just prior to the building of the community centre.

In 2008 the Kentish Quarryman Public House, which was the former Ditton Working Men's Club located on the western side of New Road, was opened.