Sutton-on-Trent
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 Sutton on Trent
Sutton on Trent shown within Nottinghamshire |
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| Population | 1,331 (2011) |
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| OS grid reference | SK794658 |
| District | Newark and Sherwood |
| Shire county | Nottinghamshire |
| Region | East Midlands |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | NEWARK |
| Postcode district | NG23 |
| Dialling code | 01636 |
| Police | Nottinghamshire |
| Fire | Nottinghamshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| EU Parliament | East Midlands |
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Sutton-on-Trent is a village in Nottinghamshire. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 1,327,[1] increasing marginally to 1,331 at the 2011 census.[2]
It is located 8 miles north of Newark-on-Trent.
Sutton Mill was a stone-built tower windmill, built in 1825[citation needed]. It was owned by the Bingham family of Grassthorpe from the 1860s until 1984. The four-storey tower has been converted to a house.[3]
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History
Dredging of the river has revealed fossilized mammoth's teeth and tusks, Roman and Anglo Saxon pottery.[4] The town is mentioned in the Domesday Book and a Norman church was built in the 13th Century.
In May 1686 the manor and lordship of Sutton-on-Trent were sold to Richard Levett, later Lord Mayor of London, and his wife Mary.[5][6]
In 1870–72,[7] Sutton on Trent was described as:
- A village and a parish in Southwell district, Notts. The village stands 1½ mile N by E of Carlton r. station, and 8 N of Newark; was once a market-town; is a polling place; and has a post-office under Newark. The parish comprises 2,930 acres. Real property, £6,753. Pop. in 1851, 1,262; in 1861, 1,147. Houses, 281. The manor belongs to the Right Hon. J. E. Denison. There are corn mills. The living. is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £280. Patron, Rev.Graystone. The church was repaired in 1848. There are chapels for Independents, Baptists, and Wesleyans, a slightly endowed school, and charities £5.[8]
A Board School was leased from the Church School Trustees and endowed in 1816, and Sutton Mill a stone tower windmill built in 1825, (It is now a residence) and by 1900 the area was known for its basket making. A feastival is still held on the first of November each year.[9][10]
See also
References
- ↑ "Area: Sutton-on-Trent CP (Parish)"
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- ↑ Shaw, T. (1995). Windmills of Nottinghamshire. Page 37. Nottingham: Nottinghamshire County Council. ISBN 0-900986-12-3
- ↑ Domesday Book Reloaded, at BBC.co.uk.
- ↑ Catalogue of Denison Estate Papers in the Denison Collection, University of Notthingham, nottingham.ac.uk
- ↑ The Home Counties Magazine: Devoted to the Topography of London, Middlesex, Essex, Herts, Bucks, Berks, Surrey and Kent, Vol. X, W. Paley Baildon (ed.), Reynell & Son, London, 1908
- ↑ Sutton on Trent Nottinghamshire – at A Vision of Britain through Time.
- ↑ John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales.
- ↑ Sutton on Trent, at GenUK.
- ↑ Cornelius Brown, A History of Nottinghamshire, (1896).
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