Sutterton

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Sutterton
Lincolnshire
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St. Mary the Blessed Virgin, Sutterton
Location
Grid reference: TF283357
Location: 52°53’37"N, 0°4’54"W
Data
Population: 1,585  (2011)
Post town: Boston
Postcode: PE20
Dialling code: 01205
Local Government
Council: Boston

Sutterton is a village and rural parish in the Holland part of Lincolnshire, within the Kirton Wapentake. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,585.[1]

Sutterton parish church is dedicated to St Mary the Blessed Virgin.[2]

Geography

Sutterton lies approximately six miles south-west of Boston, near the junction of the A16 and A17 roads, and on the B1397 (formerly A16). The village of Kirton lies two miles to the north-west. The Spalding bypass opened as the 'Spalding-Sutterton Improvement' in 1995.

Community

Sutterton has a post office and general store, one public house and restaurant, fish and chip shop, a garden centre, veterinary practice and doctors' practice and a village hall used in conjunction with the primary school. Close to the east is Algarkirk with which Sutterton shares Sutterton Fourfields Primary School.[3] Before 1970, the two villages also shared the Algarkirk and Sutterton railway station[4] on the Spalding to Boston line, now next to the A16.

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