Sutton, Long (Holy Trinity)
SUTTON, LONG (Holy Trinity), a parish, in the union of Langport, hundred of Somerton, W. division of Somerset, 2¾ miles (S. S. W.) from Somerton; containing, with the tything of Knowle, and the hamlets of Load and Upton, 979 inhabitants. The river Yeo, or Ivel, runs along the southern boundary of the parish. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £8. 18.; impropriator, the Earl of Burlington: the great tithes have been commuted for £400, and the small for £230; the vicar has a glebe of 17 acres. Roman coins, pateræ, and other antiquities, have been found in the neighbourhood.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.