Sutton, Suffolk
Historical Description
Sutton, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, on the river Deben, 3 miles SE of Woodbridge station on the G.E.R. It has a post office under Woodbridge; money order and telegraph office, Melton. Acreage, 5448; population, 500. There is a parish council of nine members and a chairman. Part of the land is heath. Coprolites are found in large quantities. The manor, with Button Hall, belongs to the Waller family. Wood Hall is a chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £267 with residence. The church is an ancient building of flint in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, and S porch. It has an ancient carved stone font and some good stained windows. There is a Baptist chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Suffolk | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Sutton All Saints | |
Hundred | Wilford | |
Poor Law union | Woodbridge |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Sutton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Sutton (All Saints))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Sutton are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Suffolk papers online: