SUTTON (KING'S), a parish in the hundred of KING'S-SUTTON, county of NORTHAMPTON, 6 miles (W. by S.) from Brackley, containing, with the hamlets of Astrop, Purson, and Walton, 1323 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the jxtrisdiction of the peculiar court of Banbury, rated in the king's books at £5.6.8., and in the joint patronage of Sir J. Willes, and R. C. Elwes, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, is a beautiful specimen of the later English style of architecture, and the tower is surmounted by a lofty crocketed spire. There are places of worship for Independents and Wesleyan Methodists. At Astrope there is a mineral spring, called St. Rumbald's well, which formerly attracted many visitors.