Sutton St Edmunds is a village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

in the

South Holland South Holland ( nl, Zuid-Holland ) is a province of the Netherlands with a population of over 3.7 million as of October 2021 and a population density of about , making it the country's most populous province and one of the world's most densely ...

district of

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-west, Leicestershire ...

, England, about south-east from the town of Spalding. Sutton St Edmunds was a

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to the parish of Long Sutton until 1866. The parish includes the hamlet of Throckenholt. The parish church is a red-brick Grade II

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dedicated to Saint Edmund. It was completely rebuilt in 1795, and has 19th-century alterations and extensions. It was extended again in 1987. The village has a village hall. Guarnock House is a red-brick Grade II listed building. It was built in 1699 and has a 20th-century roof. Sutton St Edmunds school was built in 1896 by Sutton St Edmunds

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. It became a council school in 1903. It was known as Sutton St Edmund Chapel End School in the 20th century. It closed in 1969–70. Throckenholt Priory was sited here. It was a hermitage and chapel in existence from at least 1107–1540. It was granted to

Thorney Abbey Thorney Abbey, now the Church of St Mary and St Botolph, was a medieval monastic house established on the island of Thorney in The Fens of Cambridgeshire, England. History The earliest documentary sources refer to a mid-7th century hermita ...

by Nigel,

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Sutton St Edmund Parish Council
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