Sutton, Bedfordshire

Description
Sutton, a parish, with a village, in Beds, 1 1/4 mile S of Potton station on the Bedford and Cambridge branch of the L. & N.W.R., and 2 1/2 miles NE from Biggleswade. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Potton, under Sandy. Acreage, 2234; population, 283. The manor belonged to John of Gaunt, was given by him, along with Potton, in a rhyming conveyance, to Sir Roger Burgoyne, and, with Sutton Park, belongs now to the Burgoyne baronet family. Sutton Park is a fine mansion in the Modern mixed style, standing in a well-timbered park of about 134 acres. An ancient pack-horse bridge spanning a small stream gives entrance to the village. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; gross value, £380 with residence. Patron, St John's College, Oxford. The church is an edifice of stone in the Early English and Decorated styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and an embattled western tower. It has some good stained windows, and contains some fine monuments to members of the Burgoyne family. Stillingfleet was rector.