Sutton-on-the-Hill is a
parish
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in south
Derbyshire
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eight miles (13 km) west of
Derby
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. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 Census was 123. The village is widely spread out and contains both a church (which, unlike most of the village, is on the hill) and a chapel. It was described as "a parish, with two townships and a hamlet" in the 1870s. Now it has no shop or post office and limited public transport links. Sutton on the Hill is primarily an agricultural area with former dairy farms at either end of the village, along with the Sutton Estate Farm. The village school has been converted into a village hall and has a nursery school for the local villages.
History
Sutton on the Hill is mentioned twice in the
Domesday book
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where it is spelt ''Sudtun'' and ''Sudtune''. The book says
there is one
carucate
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which is a
berewick of the manor of
Mickleover
Mickleover is a large suburban village of Derby, in Derbyshire, England. It is west of Derby city centre, northeast of Burton-upon-Trent, west of Nottingham city centre, southeast of Ashbourne and northeast of Uttoxeter.
History
The earli ...
which at that time belonged to the
Abbey of Burton together with other berewicks which included
Dalbury,
Sudbury and
Hilton.
Later, the book lists under the title of "The lands of
Henry de Ferrers
Henry de Ferrers (died by 1100), magnate and administrator, was a Norman who after the 1066 Norman conquest was awarded extensive lands in England.
Origins
He was the eldest son of Vauquelin de Ferrers and in about 1040 inherited his father's ...
":
[Henry held a considerable number of manors including several in Derbyshire given to him by the ]King
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*In the context of prehistory, antiquity and contemporary indigenous peoples, the tit ...
. These included obviously Sutton on the Hill, but also included lands in Brailsford, Dalbury and Twyford."In Sutton on the hill Thorir, Alweald, Ubeinn, Leofwine and Eadric had two carucates
The carucate or carrucate ( lat-med, carrūcāta or ) was a medieval unit of land area approximating the land a plough team of eight oxen could till in a single annual season. It was known by different regional names and fell under different forms ...
of land to the geld
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* Gelding, equine castration
* Danegeld
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. There is land for three ploughs. There are now three ploughs in demesne and nine villans having seven ploughs. There is a priest and a church and one mill rendering 10 shillings and twenty four acres of meadow. TRE[TRE in ]Latin
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is Tempore Regis Edwardi. This means in the time of King Edward before the Battle of Hastings
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. as now sixty shillings. Wazelin holds it."
The parish of Sutton on the Hill used to contain the settlements of
Ash
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,
Osleston and
Thurvaston. The manor had at one time been owned by the Blue Coat Hospital and Library in Manchester as it was bought as part of charity set up in the will of Humphrey Chetham. The rights to appoint the vicar was purchased by German Buckston(e) in 1834. In 1801 Sutton on the Hill's total population was 388. In 1901 it was 124, and by 1961 it was 95.
Notable residents
George Buckston
George Moreton Buckston (12 March 1881 – 24 November 1942) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University in 1903, Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and Derbyshire between 1905 and 1921.
Buckston was born in Hop ...
played for
Derbyshire Cricket Club and was
High Sheriff of Derbyshire
High may refer to:
Science and technology
* Height
* High (atmospheric), a high-pressure area
* High (computability), a quality of a Turing degree, in computability theory
* High (tectonics), in geology an area where relative tectonic uplift to ...
in 1926. His son
Robin was captain of Derbyshire County Cricket Club and High Sheriff in 1960. Current
Derby County
Derby County Football Club () is a professional association football club based in Derby, Derbyshire, England. In 2022, it was announced that DCFC was acquired by Clowes Developments (UK) Ltd, a Derbyshire-based property group.
Founded in 188 ...
and former England U-21 goalkeeper
Stephen Bywater also lives in the area.
Other notable residents include Michael Seals CBE, chairman of the
Animal Sentience Committee of the UK, and
Eric Steele, English footballer and goalkeeping coach.
See also
*
Listed buildings in Sutton on the Hill
References
Further reading
*
External links
Sutton-on-the-Hill at Derbyshire.net
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Villages in Derbyshire
Civil parishes in Derbyshire
South Derbyshire District