SUTTON, a parish in the liberty of SOUTHWELL-and-SCROOBY, though locally in the wapentake of Bassetlaw, county of NOTTINGHAM, 3 miles (N. N. W.) from East Retford, containing, with the township of Lound, 717 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, with that of Scrooby annexed, in the archdeaconry of Nottingham, and diocese of York, rated in the king's books at & 10, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and & 200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Duke of Portland. The church is dedicated to St. Bartholomew. The river Idle runs through the parish, in which there is a very ancient mansion of singular appearance, said to have been formerly much largerthan at present, and the country residence of some of the ancestors of Earl Fitzwilliam. A school, erected by subscription in 1783, is endowed with the proceeds of £70, the gift of Richard Taylor, in 1737, and with two allotments of the waste lands, enclosed in 1773; the annual income is about £28, for which, and the payment of threepence each per week, thirty children are educated. Sutton is in the honour of Tutbury, duchy of Lancaster, and within the jurisdiction of a court of pleas held at Tutbury every third Tuesday, for the recovery of debts under 40s.