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The London Borough of Sutton () is a London borough in South West London, England and forms part of Outer London. It covers an area of and is the 80th largest local authority in England by population. It is one of the southernmost boroughs of London. It is south of the London Borough of Merton, west of the London Borough of Croydon and east of the Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames. The local authority is Sutton London Borough Council. Its principal town is the eponymous Sutton. The Borough has some of the schools with the best results in the country. A Trust for London and New Policy Institute report on levels of poverty throughout Greater London described Sutton as "not especially deprived, but not as prosperous as places such as Richmond or Kingston." It noted that Sutton had the highest rate in London of pupils achieving 5 A * - C GCSEs. In December 2014 Sutton was described by a senior Government official as the most "normal place in Britain".〔(Evening Standard )〕 In connection with this, the leader of Sutton Council described the borough as "quietly brilliant", and noted that 91% of residents say it is "a great place to live".〔(Sutton Press Office )〕 Low levels of recorded crime are a feature of the borough, being among the lowest in London. An Ipsos MORI poll in 2014 found that 97% of residents felt safe in the borough during the day, and 71% felt safe at night, a higher figure than in 2011.〔(Sutton Council press release )〕 The 2014 Family Hotspots Report, on the best places in England and Wales for families to live, placed three areas within the borough among the top 10 places in London. The areas were identified as postcodes SM1, SM2 (Sutton town) and SM3 (Cheam).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Family Hotspots Report 2014 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Super Sutton: Borough has most entries in top family places to live in London )〕 A study in 2015 found that Sutton was the fourth happiest borough in which to live out of 33 in London.〔(Surrey Comet )〕 It was shown in a national detailed Land Use Survey by the Office for National Statistics in 2005 that the London Borough of Sutton had the highest proportion of land taken up by gardens, 35.1%, of any district in England; this compared with the London Borough of Harrow and Bournemouth, second and third greatest respectively.〔(Physical Environment: Land Use Survey 2005 ) 2011 census〕 The London Borough of Sutton was one of the four "vanguard areas" selected in 2010 for the Big Society initiative.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=What is the Big Society? )〕 ==History== The borough was formed in 1965 by the merger of the Municipal Borough of Sutton and Cheam with the Municipal Borough of Beddington and Wallington and Carshalton Urban District which had previously been part of Surrey. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「London Borough of Sutton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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