SUTTON, a township in the parish of PRESTBURY,
hundred of MACCLESFIELD, county palatine of CHESTER,
2 miles (S. E. by S.) from Macclesfield, containing
2991 inhabitants, who are principally employed in the
silk manufacture. Here are two small bequests, by
Catherine Nixon, in 1689, and John Upton, applied to
the instruction of poor children. This was the seat of
the family of Holinshed, the historian, and is supposed
to have been his birthplace.