Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SUTTON-BONNINGTON

SUTTON-BONNINGTON, a village and two parishes in the district of Loughborough and county of Nottingham. The village stands near the river Soar, 1 mile S by E of Kegworth r. station, and 10½ SSW of Nottingham; and has a post-office under Loughborough. The parishes are St. Ann and St. Michael. Acres, 1,910. Real property, £6,266. Pop., 381 and 638. Houses, 92 and 154. The manor of St. Ann belongs to W. Paget, Esq.; and that of St. Michael, to G. E. Paget, Esq. The livings are rectories in the diocese of Lincoln. Value of St. A., £270;* of St. M., £700.* Patron of St. A., the Lord Chancellor; of St. M., the Dean and Chapter of Bristol. The church of St. A. is old; and that of St. M. is a fine edifice, with tower and lofty spire. There are two dissenting chapels, an endowed school for boys with £52 a year, a subscription school for girls, and charities £12.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and two parishes"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Sutton Bonington Tn/CP       Nottinghamshire AncC
Place: Sutton Bonington

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