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"Sutton Bonnington is an extensive village on the eastern bank of the Soar, 11 miles south south west of Nottingham. It is in the two parishes of Sutton St Ann and Sutton St Michael, which support their poor jointly. There were anciently two distinct villages, the more southerly one being Sutton juxta Bonnington, and the other Bonnington, but they have long been connected by modern buildings, and borne the common name of Sutton Bonnington. It contains 1,220 inhabitants, and 2,070 acres of land, rated at £6,034, including the value of 20 acres taken by the Midland Railway company. William Paget Esq. is lord of the manor of St Ann's, and George Pynge Paget Esq. of St Michael's.
At the enclosure in 1775 and 1777, the tithes of both parishes were commuted for allotments of land; to St Ann's were allotted 123a 1r, and to St Michael's 211a 35p. In 1832, Lord Tamworth sold his estate here, when Wm. Paget Esq. of Loughborough became the principal purchaser; but Jonathan Burton, Thomas Bigsby, John B. Bainbridge Esq. and Mrs Redfern of Barton have also estates here. At the top of the village is an ancient house called Hobgoblins, which was once an extensive building, as appears from the numerous foundations which are still visible, and formerly had a chapel attached to it, which belonged to Repton priory, in Derbyshire.
Kirk Hill, near Zouch Bridge, is supposed to have been a Roman camp. In 1825 a number of ancient coins and urns were found in a high state of preservation, some of the latter were sold for five guineas each. Wm. Riste, the 'Giant of England', who was 7 feet four and a half inches in height, was born in this village. He increased annually six inches in height, from 14 up to 20 years of age, and was introduced to His Majesty King George III, who presented him with a splendid suit of silk to be exhibited in."
[WHITE's "Directory of Nottinghamshire," 1853]
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The Library at Kegworth, LEI will prove useful in your research.
Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Marlepit Hill cemetery on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2014.
- The parish was in the Leake sub-district of the Loughborough Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
| Census Year | Piece No. |
|---|---|
| 1861 | R.G. 9 / 2278 |
| 1871 | R.G. 10 / 3259 |
| 1891 | R.G. 12 / 2518 |
- There are two Anglican eclessiastical parishes within this one Civil Parish: St. Anne's and St. Michael's.
- The Anglican parish church dedicated to Saint Anne is the smaller of the two, and perhaps older.
- Saint Anne's Church was restored in 1860.
- Saint Michael's is larger and sports a tower with six bells. It was long the custom for St. Micahel's to ring the curfew bell during the winter months.
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1654.
- Both churches were in the rural deanery of West Bingham.
- The Wesleyan Methodists, the Primitive Methodists and the Reformed Wesleyans each had a chapel built here by 1881.
- Tim HEATON has a photograph of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2008.
- The Baptists had a chapel built here by 1881.
- The parish was in the Leake sub-district of the Loughborough Registration District.
- In 1935, the parish was reassigned to the Basford sub-district of the Loughborough Registration District.
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
This parish and village are in the Wold Hills and lie about 121 miles north of London, 5 miles north-west of Loughborough (in Leicestershire) and 10 miles south-west of Nottingham. Zouch Mill is a hamlet in this parish.
The River Soar flows along the west side of the parish and village and separates this place from Leicestershire. If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, take the M1 to Kegworth and pass thru that town to get to Sutton Bonington.
- We have an extract from White's 1853 Directory relating to this parish.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Sutton Bonington to another place.
- Kirk Hill is thought to have been a Roman camp. Many Roman coins and urns have been found there.
- Thomas WOOTTON and family were here in the late 1690s.
- Many of the village people worked as frame-work knitters in the 1800s.
- Malcolm NEAL has a photograph of the main building at Sutton Bonington on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2019. The main building at Sutton Bonington was completed in 1915 and was due to be part of the Midland Agricultural and Dairy College. However on completion the government requisitioned it to be an officer prisoner of war site for German Officers for the duration of the first world war. It closed in 1919 and Sutton Bonington reverted to its original planned use as an agricultural college and eventually became part of Nottingham University in 1948.
- There is mention of "Hobgoblins House", but no designation of it as the manor house or hall. It is said to have been formerly a religious house.
- Sutton Hall was the seat of George Ernest PAGET in 1881.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK504254 (Lat/Lon: 52.823783, -1.253498), Sutton Bonington 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.
In World War I, the residential buildings of the new college (Univ. of Nottingham) were used to house German prisoners of war.
William Byerley PAGET, who resided here in 1841, would be promoted to Lieut.-colonel and serve in the Royal Hussars.
Located in the vestibule of the main building at University of Nottingham School of Agriculture, College Road, is this bronze plaque with the inscription: 'In honoured memory of those who have been connected with this college and who fell in the Great War 1914-1918'
- Langton Benson Brown
- G. H. Brooke
- Sidney Feltham Bull
- Cecil Claude Cheatle
- Arthur George Compton
- Charles Hugh Ellwood
- C. N. Harrison
- L. Jones
- Alex Murray
- C. Rudkin
- James Ernest Shackleton
- Henry Herbert Owen Stafford
- Stuart Longsdon Thirlby
- James S. Thomas
- Thomas Joseph Wilford Weld
- Although often spelled with a "double N" as in "Sutton Bonnington, the preferred rendering is "Sutton Bonington".
- This place was an ancient township in Nottinghamshire and it became a Civil Parish when those were established.
- The parish was in the southern division of the ancient Rushcliffe Wapentake in the southern division of the county.
- You may contact the local Sutton Bonington Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but they are NOT staffed to help with family history lookups.
- District governance is provided by the Rushcliffe Borough Council.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Nottingham petty session hearings.
- In 1775 and 1777 the Common Land was enclosed here.
- As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Loughborough Poor Law Union in Leicestershire.
Year Inhabitants 1801 790 1821 983 1851 1,220 1861 1,019 1871 1,009 1881 1,005 1891 993 1901 1,005 1911 956 1921 974 1931 1,132
- A Free School was founded here in 1719 by Henry TATE.
- A National School was built here in 1844 to replace the one above.
- The East Leake and District Local History Society has a number of records available and will do lookups. Be specific; they do not have time to find all occurrences of a surname in all their records.