A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE 



school, and a mission church in Sandy ; a Primitive 

 Methodist Chapel of 1 868 at Girtford, and a Wesleyan 

 Chapel of 1865 at Beeston. 



This parish is possessed of the 

 CHARITIES following properties known as The 

 Charity Lands, namely, 10 acres of 

 land in Keysoe, purchased with ;£l40 left by will 

 of John Wynne, 1 660, and 3 a. 3 r. allotted under 

 the Keysoe Inclosure Act, producing ^^14 a year, 

 which, together with a moiety of the rent of 

 2 a. I r. 16 p., mentioned below, in Down Field, 

 Sandy, is applied in accordance with the terms of the 

 will in the distribution of twelve penny loaves to 

 twelve poor people every Lord's Day frequenting the 

 church ; 20/. for a sermon to be preached in rotation 

 by the ministers of Sandy, Sutton, and Northill on 

 the anniversary of testator's death (apparently 9 June) 

 from St. John vi, 27, and the balance is distributed 

 among the poor partly in money and partly in bread ; 

 43 acres of land in Great Paxton, county of Hunting- 

 don, purchased with X'S° ^^^^ ^7 vvill of Thomas 

 Bromsall, 1 690, £z 5 by will of Rev. Francis Palmer, 

 1680, and with other monies, let at £2^ a year, 

 which together with a moiety of the rent of 

 2 a. I r. 16 p. in Down Field, purchased with 

 proceeds of sale of timber, and let at £^2 18/. gd. a 

 year, is applied in apprenticing, the premium being 

 usually j£i5 ; 52/. a year as a charge on the estate is 

 also distributed in bread every Lord's Day in respect 

 of Palmer's Charity ; 2 a. 2 r. 1 6 p. of land at 

 Eaton Socon, allotted under the Inclosure Act of 

 that parish in respect of land given by will of 



— Yarrow (date unknown), let at £'j 10s. a 

 year, is applied in apprenticing. The trustees also 

 hold X'°° consols, purchased with accumulations of 

 income of Wynne's and Yarrow's Charities. 



By an order of the Charity Commissioners of I o 

 October, 1895, made under the Local Government 

 Act, 1894, the parish council appoint two representa- 

 tives on the body of trustees. 



This parish is also possessed of 26 a. 2 r. 14 p., known 

 as the Town Lands, part of 3 3 a. o r. 9 p. (including 

 a public drain crossing the same) allotted m 1 804 to 

 the lords of the manors of Sandy, Hasells, and Girtford, 

 and to the rector and churchwardens of Sandy, in satis- 

 faction of the right of cutting ling and fern upon 

 Sandy Warren for fuel, upon trust to apply the rents 

 and profits in purchasing wood, coals, and other fuel 

 for distribution among the industrious poor of the 

 parish of Sandy (except those of the hamlet of Beeston). 

 In 1 85 1 5 a. o r. 37 p. was sold to the Great 

 Northern Railway Company, and invested in 

 £61^ lis. 4</. consols in the Court of Chancery. 

 The land produces ^^30 a year or thereabouts, which 

 together with the dividends on the stock, amounting to 

 about ;£i 5 a year, is distributed in coals among the poor. 



In 1 89 1 George John Hooke Pearson, by deed, 

 gave ;^ioo consols upon trust that the rector and 

 churchwardens should apply the dividends in sub- 

 scriptions to the Hunstanton Convalescent Home to 

 confer the right of nominating inhabitants of the 

 parish of Sandy recovering from sickness as inmates 

 thereof, the charity to be called ' The Frances Peanon 

 Charity.' 



SUTTON 



Sudtone, Suttone (xi cent.). 



Sutton is a parish covering an area of 2,233 acres, 

 of which 1,335 are arable land, 593 permanent grass 

 and 318 woods and plantations.' The soil is prin- 

 cipally clay, the subsoil strong clay, and the principal 

 crops wheat, barley, beans, and peas. The parish is 

 well wooded in the north and west. 



There is no railway station at Sutton, Potton, 

 1 \ miles off, on the Bletchley and Cambridge branch, 

 and Biggleswade, 2J miles to the north-east, on the 

 main line of the London and North Western Railway 

 being the nearest stations. 



The high road from Biggleswade to Potton passes 

 from south-west to north-east of the parish, forming, 

 as it passes north, the western boundary of the Sutton 

 Park Estate. Another road coming up from Eyworth 

 in the south-east joins the Sandy and Potton main 

 road as it issues from the north-western corner of the 

 parish. 



This road, shortly after entering the parish, rises 

 from an elevation of 120 ft. to 184 ft. above the 

 ordnance datum, but it falls again before entering the 

 village of Sutton, which is situated about the centre of 

 the parish. 



The church stands at the south-east end of the 

 park, with the vicarage immediately to the east of it, 

 the fall of the ground being eastward. At the foot of 



the slope the road crosses by a ford one of the numerous 

 small streams that feed the River Ivel. The footpath 

 is carried over the stream by a narrow stone pack- 

 horse bridge, probably of fourteenth-century date, 

 with two pointed arches. Beyond the stream is the 

 greater part of the small village ; its houses mostly 

 built of timber and plaster with thatched roofs. 



Sutton Park, the seat of Col. Sir John Montague 

 Burgoyne, which is bounded on the west by the 

 Potton Road, contains some good trees, firs and 

 others ; the present house is modem, but to the 

 north of it is a large earthen mound, said to be the 

 site of the original house, and undoubtedly of early 

 date. It has been encircled by a ditch, and local 

 tradition has it that the village was formerly near to it. 



The vicarage house is of considerable interest, the 

 oldest part belonging to an H -shaped building of 

 timber and plaster, probably of sixteenth-century date, 

 with a later wing on the north. It faces eastward. 



The following place-names have been found in 

 Sutton : — Longholm, in the fourteenth century ; ' 

 Bendowes, and le Sande Ende, in the sixteenth.' 



The principal holder in Sutton at the 



MANORS time of the Domesday Survey was the 



Countess Judith, who held altogether six 



hides which subsequently became SUTTON MANOR.* 



Her lands became part of the honour of Huntingdon, 



1 Return of the Bd. of Agric. 1905. 

 The details include land in other 

 parishes. 



» Harl. Chart. 84, A. 50. 

 8 Ct. R. bdle. I, No. i ; Chan. Inq. 

 p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixxxiv, No. 2. 



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