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Sutton St Edmund, Lincolnshire

Historical Description

Sutton St Edmund, a village, a hamlet, and a parish in Lincolnshire, 10 miles W from Wisbech, and 4 N from French Drove station on the Spalding and March branch of the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint railway. There is a post office under Wisbech; money order office, Parson Drove; telegraph office, Murrow (R.S.) Acreage, 5622; population of the civil parish, 645; of the ecclesiastical, 670. The manor belongs to the Jackson family. The land is devoted chiefly to grazing. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; gross value, £370 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Long Sutton. The church, rebuilt about 1798, is a small building of brick and stone, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and tower. There are Baptist and United Methodist chapels, an endowed school, and some useful charities.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyLincolnshire 
Civil parishLong Sutton 
Poor Law unionHolbeach 
WapentakeElloe 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Church Records

Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for Sutton St Edmund:

BaptismsBannsMarriagesBurials
1706-18461754-18121706-19111706-1812

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Sutton St Edmund from the following:


Maps

Online maps of Sutton St Edmund are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lincolnshire papers online:

DistrictSouth Holland
CountyLincolnshire
RegionEast Midlands
CountryEngland
Postal districtPE12
Post TownSpalding

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