Little Sutton is a small civil parish, containing a few farms and a few houses, lying between the much larger parishes of Long Sutton and

Sutton Bridge Sutton Bridge is a village and civil parish in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated on the A17 road, north from Wisbech and west from King's Lynn. The village includes a commercial dock on the west bank of th ...

, in

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a Counties of England, 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-we ...

, England.

Geography

For Parliamentary, County, and District elections, the parish is taken together with its bigger sibling, Long Sutton. Purely parish matters are dealt with by a

parish meeting A parish meeting, in England, is a meeting to which all the electors in a civil parish are entitled to attend. In some cases, where a parish or group of parishes has fewer than 200 electors, the parish meeting can take on the role of a parish cou ...

. On South Holland District Council, it is part of the Long Sutton ward, with Lutton and Tydd. At the 2001 census, 100% of the parish was white, with 87% describing themselves as Christian. The parish boundary with Long Sutton stretches as far north as Yellow House. West of Maze Farm (outside the parish) it meets Sutton Bridge. It follows ''Hospital Drove'' southwards, crossing ''Woad Lane'', past Common Farm. It crosses ''Bridge Road'', the former A17, then further south crosses the busy A17 close to where the pylon line crosses. As ''Hospital Drove'', the boundary meets

Tydd St Mary Tydd St Mary is a village and civil parish in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England, about east of the town of Spalding and about north of Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. The Civil Parish includes the village of Tydd Gote which lies p ...

at the

South Holland Main Drain South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz ...

. At the A1101 bridge over the drain, it meets Long Sutton, and follows the A1101 ''

Wisbech Wisbech ( ) is a market town, inland port and civil parish in the Fenland district in Cambridgeshire, England. In 2011 it had a population of 31,573. The town lies in the far north-east of Cambridgeshire, bordering Norfolk and only 5 miles ...

Road'' northwards. For 300 metres, it follows ''Woodward's Lane'' eastwards, then passes northwards across the A17, west of Hope House. At ''Hundreds Lane'', it passes northwards along the west side of the Premier Foods factory.

Food production

Premier Foods factory, Little Sutton - geograph

Premier Foods Premier Foods plc is a British food manufacturer headquartered in St Albans, Hertfordshire. The group owns many well-known brands, including Mr Kipling, Ambrosia, Bird's Custard, Angel Delight, Homepride cooking sauces, Lyons, Sharwood's, Loy ...

have a factory on ''Bridge Road''. Princes Foods uses this Long Sutton address for most of its products. The factory uses around 16,000 MWh of electricity a year, canning baked beans, vegetables, puddings and meat. It employs over 600. The factory was acquired by Hillsdown Holdings in 1981, and was used to can vegetables. In 1990 Hillsdown Holdings became HL Foods Ltd, then Premier Foods in November 2002 before becoming Princes Foods. In December 2001, when known as Premier International Foods, food scientists at the plant created the world's first 'chips in a can' meal, costing 99p each. The team was headed by Dr Malcolm Crouchman. The items were marketed as ''Omelette, Chips 'N' Beans'' and ''Beef Grill 'N' Chips''.Spalding Guardian

History

The civil parish is contained within the religious parish of St Mary, Long Sutton.

References

{{South Holland (district) Civil parishes in Lincolnshire Hamlets in Lincolnshire South Holland, Lincolnshire