SUTTON-upon-TRENT, a parish in the northern
division of the wapentake of THURGARTON, county of
NOTTINGHAM, 5 miles (S. E.) from Tuxford, containing
884 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage,
in the archdeaconry of Nottingham, and diocese of
York, rated in the king's books at £5. 6. 8., endowed
with £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of Sir
Charles Hulse, Bart. The church, dedicated to All
Saints, exhibits a mixture of various styles of architecture.
There are places of worship for Baptists and
Wesleyan Methodists. Six poor children are instructed
in the parochial school-house for £ 6 per annum, the
bequest of Mary Sprigg, in 1816.