Sutton, Surrey

Historical Description

Sutton, a village and a parish in Surrey. The village has a junction station on the L.B. & S.C.R., 14 miles from London, and 4¼ WSW of Croydon. It consists chiefly of one street, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office. The parish includes Benhilton, a group of new villas at Been Hill, numerous other new villas and cottages, and the South Metropolitan District School. Acreage, 1836; population of the civil parish, 13,977; of the ecclesiastical, 12,439. There is an urban district council consisting of twelve members. The church of St Nicholas was rebuilt in 1864, and is an edifice of flint in the Gothic style. It contains some handsome monuments and memorials. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester; gross value, £600 with residence. Patron, Hertford College, Oxford. Christ Church is a handsome building of brick in the Early English style. The living is a vicarage; net value, £400. St Barnabas is an edifice of brick in the Decorated style. The living is a vicarage; gross value, £180. Patron, the Bishop of Rochester. The church of All Saints. Benhilton, is in the Early Decorated style. The living ie a vicarage; gross value, £440 with residence. There are Baptist, Wesleyan, Congregational, Primitive Methodist, United Methodist, and Roman Catholic chapels.

Administration

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

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

Church Records

The Parish Registers of Sutton, Co. Surrey, 1636-1837 is available to purchase on CD-ROM from the shop.

Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Surrey History Centre, have images of the Parish Registers for Surrey online.

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 from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Sutton (St. Nicholas))

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Surrey 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 Surrey papers online:

• Surrey Mirror
• Dorking and Leatherhead Advertiser
• Surrey Advertiser

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Surrey, 1662-1668 is available on the Heraldry page.