Sutton, Great
SUTTON, GREAT, a township, in the parish of Eastham, union, and Higher division of the hundred, of Wirrall, S. division of the county of Chester, 7 miles (N. N. W.) from Chester; containing 203 inhabitants. In the Domesday survey this place appears to have been held in moieties by Robert Fitz-Hugh, Baron of Montalt, and the Bishop of Chester; but it seems that the whole merged at an early period into the possession of the monks of St. Werburgh. It continued, with the adjacent manor of Little Sutton, to be held by them until the Dissolution, and in the last century passed to its present proprietors, the White family, of Sutton Hall. The township comprises an area of 1050 acres, whose prevailing soil is clay; and contains a few farmhouses and other ordinary buildings, scattered on the side of the road between Chester and the ferries on the Mersey. The Chester and Birkenhead railway has a station in the vicinity. The Independents have a place of worship here.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.