Ditton is a residential area of the town of Widnes, in the borough of Halton, in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.

This an industrial stretch of road containing remnants of Widnes' manufacturing and trade, including a chemical plant and large timber yard which sit on an expanse of land which leads to the River Mersey.

The area also once contained a popular golf course – St Michaels Municipal, however it closed due to arsenic contamination, which is a reminder of the industrial waste that lies beneath.

Some years after the Senior Management buy-out of the company from Dalgety, the Widnes site was closed and production transferred to Scunthorpe.

A large part of the workforce were Widnes-based, so the decline of the factory exacerbated the problem of unemployment for unskilled and semi-skilled workers in the area.