Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SUTTERTON

SUTTERTON, a parish, with a village and three hamlets, in Boston district, Lincoln; ½ mile NE of Algarkirk r. station, and 6 SSW of Boston. It has a post-office under Spalding. Acres, 6,550. Real property, £12,617. Pop. in 1851, 1,000; in 1861, 898. Houses, 202. About 2,700 acres, with a pop. of 440, are a fen allotment from 8 to 12 miles NNW of the village. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £1,060.* Patron, the Crown. The church is later English and cruciform; has a tower, with crocketted spire; and was restored in 1862. The fen allotment was recently made a separate charge, and has a church and schools. There are three dissenting chapels, and charities £260.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a parish, with a village and three hamlets"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Sutterton CP/AP       Boston RegD/PLU       Lincolnshire AncC
Place: Sutterton

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