Sutterby

The Community Library at Alford has a local history archive that will prove useful in your research.

• The parish was in the Alford sub-district of the Spilsby Registration District.
   
• Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

Census Year	Piece No.
1851	H.O. 107 / 2107
1861	R.G. 9 / 2377
1871	R.G. 10 / 3395
1891	R.G. 12 / 2605

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist.
   
• It is a tiny church and only seats about 40.
   
• The Diocese of Lincoln declared the church redundant in August, 1972. It was gifted as a monument in March, 1981.
   
• David HITCHBORNE has a photograph of Saint John's at its worst on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2006.
   
• The church is a Grade II listed building with British Heritage.
   
• Here is a photo of St. John's church, taken by Ron Cole (who retains the copyright):
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1595.
   
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Bolingbroke Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
   

• The parish was in the Alford sub-district of the Spilsby Registration District.
   
• Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration beginning in July 1837.

This parish and tiny village lies 5 miles west of Alford. Aswardby parish is to the south and Harrington parish forms the western border.

If you are planning a visit:

• See the Lincolnshire Touring and Holidays page on this site.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Sutterby to another place.

On the downs to the east there are barrows.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF386724 (Lat/Lon: 53.23056, 0.074941), Sutterby which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• The "-by" ending of the name indicates that this was a Viking settlement.
   
• The name of the village appears in the 1086 Domesday Book.

• This place was an ancient parish in Lincoln county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the Wold division of the ancient Candleshoe Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
   
• Kelly's 1900 Directory of Lincolnshire places this parish, perhaps erroneously, in the South Lindsey division of the county.
   
• The Civil Parish was abolished in April, 1935, and the land amalgamated into the new Langston by Spilsby Civil Parish.
   
• For today's district governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Alford petty session hearings.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the parish became part of the Spilsby Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	28
1831	34
1871	35
1881	36
1891	36
1911	28

• The children of this parish attended school in Langton or Brinkhill.
   
• See our Schools page for more information on researching school records.