A SUTTON LIST
Hello ! . . to all other places called Sutton, wherever you be.
We take our name from Sud tone .. the Saxon name first given to the settlement of dwellings on this low ridge that rises just above the surrounding flood plain, Sud being 'south", and tone being a form of 'tun', denoting a small farmstead or settlement.
We've been here for well over a 1,000 years, our oldest church is over 700 years old, and until some 100 years ago, we were properly titled 'Sutton in Holderness' after the rural plain to our east towards the coast. Our name is Saxon, but this area was variously and repeatedly invaded by Vikings and Danes, many of whom settled, and lastly by Normans, who transformed much of England.
In more recent times, we became 'Sutton on Hull", taking that name from the nearby river that used to regularly flood in winter and practically surround us with water. We are now a part of the City of Hull, which stands at the mouth that same river as it exits into the Humber estuary, and from which it also takes its name.
Hull is more properly and formally called 'Kingston upon Hull', having been chartered by the medieval king, Edward 1, so becoming a 'kings town'. But colloquially, local residents know it as Hull. The villages of Sutton, and Wawne our near neighbour to whom we are inextricably linked by our history, sit to the north and north-east of Hull, about three miles from the city centre.
Much more can be found out about us by exploring the links in the left-hand menu .. click here if you came to this page directly and can't see it, then click the "Other Suttons" button to come back to this page.
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Our First Link is to the Sutton in our Capital City,
SUTTON, IN SURBITON, SOUTH LONDON. As with us, Sutton was once a village, now swallowed up by a huge city.
Our next links have to be two of our near-namesakes, and like us, small English villages.
The first is SUTTON ST JAMES, that being the full name of the village in South Lincolnshire, and which takes it's name from the dedicatee of its medieval church. That St James church has a detached tower, this being some 66 feet away from the main nave, the consequence of a mishap in 1650. Their website simply states that a section of the nave 'disappeared', perhaps something to do with the Civil War.
Like us, SUTTON, NEAR MACCLESFIELD, Cheshire, also has a church dedicated to St James. Their postcode is SK11 0DS if you want to easily find it on Streetmap.
SUTTON VILLAGE CHURCH, in Sutton, near St Helens on Merseyside
.. is another example of a village being almost swallowed up by a larger neighbour. In this case, St Helens. Their church website is more interactive than ours, lessons to be learnt there to make ours more interesting. Their postcode for a quick find is WA9 3LE
SUTTON IN THE ISLE ... a lovely website to this beautiful Cambridgeshire village, just halfway between Ely and Chatteris. Good design, well laid out, and a comprehensive War Memorial page. It's easy to see the local influence in the church architecture, as their St Andrew's has an octaganal lantern tower, very reminiscent of a miniature Ely, just up the A142 to the east. "In the Isle," it may well be, and the more so in former times, and in that sense, it has much in common with our Sutton. Lots of webbed feet around there at one time, methinks.
SUTTON-IN-CRAVEN is sited on the southern edge of the Airedale valley, approximately equidistant between the towns of Skipton and Keighley. This link takes you to their village web site.
THE CITY OF SUTTON in Nebraska, in the USA, is our first example of Sutton abroad. Their website claims they only have 1,400 residents, but judging by the map and the size of their public services, I suspect they missed a nought off there. Interestingly, they also have an 'advert' for organisation called 'Code Amber', dedicated to tracing abducted children. They encourage the use of the code as a ticker-tape banner on private and commercial websites, on which are posted emergency notices of children that go missing and suspected of abduction. Perhaps it's time for something similar in the UK.
The town of SUTTON, MASSACHUSETTS, is a far-flung rural New England community, very heavily wooded and as picturesque as you would expect for that area. I do like the name of their Puckihuddle Pre-School ... This Sutton has a beauty spot called Purgatory Chasm, but I don't think it's the same as the Sutton Trod.
In England, there are many other places called Sutton, including in South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Shropshire, Norfolk, Staffordshire, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Suffolk, Oxfordshire, Kent, West Sussex, and even a Welsh one, in Pembrokeshire !
Many others are like ours, in that they have another locality name to identify them, such as Sutton-in-the-Forest, Guilden Sutton, Sutton in the Isle, Long Sutton, Sutton Coldfield and Sutton in Ashfield. I particularly like Sutton-in-the-Elms ..
For even more places, in the UK and around the world, including a couple each in Australia and Canada, see the Wikipedia directory page for Sutton
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