SUTTON (EAST), a parish in the hundred of EYHORNE, lathe of AYLESFORD, county of KENT, 6 miles (S.E.) from Maidstone, containing 312 inhabitants- The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Sutton-Valence, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Rochester. The church is dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul. The parish is crossed by the ridge W hills bounding the Weald, of which its southern side forms a part.