Sutton-cum-Granby
Sutton-cum-Granby
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| Sutton-cum-Granby shown within Nottinghamshire | |
| OS grid reference | SK761374 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | NOTTINGHAM |
| Postcode district | NG13 |
| Dialling code | 01949 |
| Police | Nottinghamshire |
| Fire | Nottinghamshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| EU Parliament | East Midlands |
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Sutton-cum-Granby (known sometimes as Sutton in the Vale) is a small Nottinghamshire hamlet in the Vale of Belvoir.
Sutton is approximately midway between Elton on the Hill and Granby, 14 miles (22.5 km) from Nottingham and from Melton Mowbray, 12 miles (19 km) from Grantham, and 118 miles (190 km) from London. It lies in the parish of Granby. The population is currently about 60. In 1742 it was 124, in 1853 152, and in 2001 43. As the population at the 2011 census was less than 100 details are included in the civil parish of Granby.
The village has no shops, but there are other businesses: a builder's, a repair garage, and farms. There is a weekday, daytime public transport service, with a bus running every hour to Nottingham via local villages. The nearest railway station is Aslockton, with trains to and beyond Nottingham and Grantham or Skegness. There has never been a public house in what was until recently a predominantly abstinent Methodist community.
The manor of Sutton, along with at least five others in Nottinghamshire, was held in the 1330s by Thomas de Furnival the elder. By 1520, Sutton belonged to Sir John Savage, but his son, also John, confessed to the murder of Sir John Pauncefort. Henry VIII pardoned him provided that he paid the sum of £4000 to expiate his crime. As a result, the land passed to the Manners family, created earl of Rutland in 1525, and then to their descendants, the earls and from 1638 dukes of Rutland. Much of the village and many of the farms were still, until the 1920s, part of the estate of the Duke of Rutland centred on Belvoir Castle, which is a prominent feature of the eastern skyline. During the English Civil War Oliver Cromwell fought a battle less than a mile from Sutton; human bones being discovered there even in the 1960s.
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