In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Sutterton like this:
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.
Sutterton through time
Sutterton is now part of Boston district. Click here for graphs and data of how Boston has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Sutterton itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Sutterton, in Boston and Lincolnshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/13863
Date accessed: 24th April 2024
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