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Sutton-on-Trent is a village in Nottinghamshire. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 1,327.〔("Area: Sutton-on-Trent CP (Parish)" )〕 It is located 8 miles north of Newark-on-Trent. Sutton Mill was a stone-built tower windmill, built in 1825. It was owned by the Bingham family of Grassthorpe from the 1860s until 1984. The four-storey tower has been converted to a house.〔Shaw, T. (1995). ''Windmills of Nottinghamshire''. Page 37. Nottingham: Nottinghamshire County Council. ISBN 0-900986-12-3〕 ==History== Dredging of the river has revealed fossilized mammoth's teeth and tusks, Roman and Anglo Saxon pottery.〔( Domesday Book Reloaded ), at BBC.co.uk.〕 The town is mentioned in the Domesday Book and a Norman church was built in the 13th Century. In May 1686 the manor and lordship of Sutton-on-Trent were sold to Richard Levett, later Lord Mayor of London, and his wife Mary.〔(Catalogue of Denison Estate Papers in the Denison Collection, University of Notthingham, nottingham.ac.uk )〕〔(The Home Counties Magazine: Devoted to the Topography of London, Middlesex, Essex, Herts, Bucks, Berks, Surrey and Kent, Vol. X, W. Paley Baildon (ed.), Reynell & Son, London, 1908 )〕 In 1870-72,〔( Sutton on Trent Nottinghamshire - at A Vision of Britain through Time ).〕 Sutton on Trent was described as: :''A village and a parish in Southwell district, Notts. The village stands 1½ mile N by E of Carlton r. station, and 8 N of Newark; was once a market-town; is a polling place; and has a post-office under Newark. The parish comprises 2,930 acres. Real property, £6,753. Pop. in 1851, 1,262; in 1861, 1,147. Houses, 281. The manor belongs to the Right Hon. J. E. Denison. There are corn mills. The living. is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £280. Patron, Rev.Graystone. The church was repaired in 1848. There are chapels for Independents, Baptists, and Wesleyans, a slightly endowed school, and charities £5.〔John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales.〕 A Board School was leased from the Church School Trustees and endowed in 1816, and Sutton Mill a stone tower windmill built in 1825, (It is now a residence) and by 1900 the area was known for its basket making. A feastival is still held on the first of November each year.〔( Sutton on Trent ), at GenUK.〕〔Cornelius Brown, A History of Nottinghamshire, (1896).〕 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「Sutton-on-Trent」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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