stands still here and to a certain extent it has. The banks of the river are little changed and you can still visualise square riggers, coal burning paddle steamers and the like rounding the bend at Greenway Quay and heading to offload their cargo at Totnes. Such trade can be dated back to the Middle Ages when Cog boats
(basic single sail wooden ships) came over from the continent with their wine. Dittisham is believed to be named after “Deedas”, a
Saxon chief who probably settled here after the Saxon invasion of Devon in about 660 A.D. The Domesday survey carried out in 1085 records the village as