In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Sutton St Edmund like this:
SUTTON-ST. EDMUND, a chapelry, with a village, in Long Sutton parish, Lincoln; 6½ miles WNW of Wisbeach r. station. Post town, Parson-Drove, under Wisbeach. Acres, 5,473. Real property, £12,831. Pop., 730. Houses, 156. The land is devoted chiefly to graziing. The living is a p. curacy in diocese of Lincoln. Value, £386.* Patron, the Vicar of Long Sutton. The church was built in 1800. There are Baptist and Primitive Methodist chapels, an endowed school with £20 a year, and charities £255.
Sutton St Edmund through time
Sutton St Edmund is now part of South Holland district. Click here for graphs and data of how South Holland has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Sutton St Edmund itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Sutton St Edmund, in South Holland and Lincolnshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
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Date accessed: 27th April 2024
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