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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.

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 CountySuffolk 
Ecclesiastical parishSutton All Saints 
HundredWilford 
Poor Law unionWoodbridge 

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


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Sutton from the following:


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:


Newspapers and Periodicals

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

DistrictSuffolk Coastal
CountySuffolk
RegionEastern
CountryEngland
Postal districtIP12
Post TownWoodbridge

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