Sutton Lane Ends or Sutton is a semi-rural village and
civil parish
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, approximately one mile south of
Macclesfield
Macclesfield is a market town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England. It is located on the River Bollin in the east of the county, on the edge of the Cheshire Plain, with Macclesfield Forest to its e ...
. In 2020 it had an estimated population of 936. The parish includes the villages of
Langley and
Oakgrove and the
hamlets of
Gurnett Gurnett is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*Donald Gurnett {1940-2022), American physicist
* George Gurnett ( 1792–1861), Canadian journalist and politician
* Jane Gurnett (born 1957), English actress
*Jim Gurnett (born 1949), ...
, Jarman and Lyme Green. Sutton is in the unitary authority of
Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of
Cheshire
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, England. The rivers
Bollin
The River Bollin is a major tributary of the River Mersey in the north-west of England.
It rises in Macclesfield Forest at the western end of the Peak District, and can be seen in spring form, from the Buxton to Macclesfield road. The stream ...
and Rosendale run through Sutton Lane Ends, as does the
Macclesfield Canal.
The population of the entire civil parish is 2,464.
[2001 census details]
Accessed 15 May 2007. In the past, the community was centred on farming, forestry and textiles; however, since these industries declined, most of the population now travel to nearby Macclesfield or
Manchester
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for employment.
Sutton Lane Ends has had an Anglican church, Sutton St. James, since 1840. The community of Sutton is served by a village shop,
primary school
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(Hollinhey Primary School) and five
public houses
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.
Education
Sutton is served by Hollinhey
Primary School
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for pupils aged 4–11. On leaving primary school, children usually attend one of the four high schools in Macclesfield (
All Hallows Catholic College, Macclesfield,
The Fallibroome Academy,
The Macclesfield Academy
Macclesfield Academy is an Academy situated in Macclesfield, Cheshire.
The Academy opened on 1 September 2011 following the decision of Cheshire East Council to close Macclesfield High School which had previously operated on the same site. It is ...
or
Tytherington High School).
Notable people
*
Charles Tunnicliffe, the renowned naturalistic painter of British birds and other wildlife, spent his early years living on a farm on Walker Lane in Sutton. His work is still celebrated with the Charles and Winifred Tunnicliffe Memorial Art Competition, which is held annually at Hollinhey Primary School.
* The engineer
James Brindley (1716–1772) undertook his apprenticeship in Gurnett in about 1733. A plaque commemorating this fact can still be seen on Plough Cottage.
*
Christine Tacon CBE (born 1959), the Groceries Code Adjudicator, lives here.
See also
*
Listed buildings in Sutton, Cheshire East
Notes
External links
Sutton St. James Anglican Church
Villages in Cheshire
Towns and villages of the Peak District
Borough of Cheshire East
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