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Diddington – in Huntingdonshire (now part of Cambridgeshire), England – is a small village and parish near Buckden south west of Huntingdon. Its population at the time of the 2011 census was 70, and by population is the smallest parish in Cambridgeshire.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Cambridgeshire County Council )〕 ==History== The parish consists of 1292 acres running to the west of the River Great Ouse. During the Second World War the hall and its park were requisitioned by the government. Between 1939 and 1942 it housed Prisoners of War and was used as a transit camp. From December 1942 until August 1943 it was taken over by the 2nd American Hospital, with 4265 casualties treated in the space of only seven months. It then became home to the 49th American Station Hospital, the second largest American hospital in England. Vacated at the end of the war, in 1946 it became a Polish Resettlement Camp. As well as housing Polish Military personnel for convalescence, it also served as a Maternity Unit for Polish women from many areas, and 1073 babies were born there between 1946 and 1948.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Diddington School )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Diddington Camp )〕 In 1948 the Frédéric Chopin Secondary School, a boarding school for Polish children, was established on the site of the hall, and when the Polish Grammar School at Bottisham closed in the 1950s, its pupils were relocated to Diddington. It closed in 1954, with the remaining pupils primarily relocated to Lilford Hall School.〔 The manor house itself has since been demolished. Known as ''Dodinctun'' at the time of the Domesday Book in 1086 and ''Dydyngton'' by the 14th century, the name Diddington means "estate associated with a man named Dodda". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Diddington」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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