Sutton in the Marsh (Sutton on Sea)

The Community Library at Alford has a local history archive that will prove useful in your research.

• The parish was in the Alford sub-district of the Spilsby Registration District.
   
• Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

Census Year	Piece No.
1841	H.O. 107 / 645
1851	H.O. 107 / 2110
1871	R.G. 10 / 3397

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Clement.
   
• Some centuries ago, a large part of the parish, including its church, was washed away by the sea. For many years the ruins of the parish church could be seen at very low water.
   
• The church was rebuilt in 1819 and again in 1860.
   
• The church seats 200.
   
• There is a photograph of St. Clement Church on the Wendy PARKINSON web site.
   
• Here is a photo of St. Clement's Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1654.
   
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Calcewaith and Candleshoe Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1834. The Primitive Methodists built their chapel in 1876. For information and assistance in researching these chapels, see our non-conformist religions page.
   
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

• The parish was in the Alford sub-district of the Spilsby Registration District.
   
• Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.

This village and parish lie on the shore of the North Sea, 7 miles northeast of Alford and 18 miles south-east of Louth. The parish covers about 1,800 acres. The southern part of the village is known as Sandilands.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A1111 trunk road northeast out of Alford via Bilsby to get to Sutton on Sea.
   
• Passenger rail service ended in October 1970.
   
• See the Lincolnshire Touring and Holidays page on this site.
   
• Sea flooding was a periodic problem in the Middle Ages. The village was last flooded on 31 January 1953, when a ten-foot storm surge broke through the flood defences.
   
• Watch for the village signs. He's a photo of one taken by Patricia McCRORY (who retains the copyright):
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Sutton in the Marsh (Sutton on Sea) to another place.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF521809 (Lat/Lon: 53.302929, 0.281096), Sutton in the Marsh (Sutton on Sea) which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• John READMAN advises: The war memorial at Sutton on Sea recently has been cleaned and renovated, and all the names put onto one Cumberland slate plaque, instead of four separate plaques. (2006).
   
• FIRST WORLD WAR 1914 - 1918 SUTTON ON SEA.

1. PRIVATE ARTHUR BAKER
2. PRIVATE HARRY BAKER
3. CAPTAIN BENJAMIN EWART BROWN
4. PRIVATE GEORGE ALFRED BUTTERY
5. CAPTAIN WILLIAM CLARENCE LONG HAYDEN
6. CORPORAL JOHN GEORGE HOTCHIN
7. PRIVATE JOHN FORD LAKE
8. LIEUTENANT FRANCIS ARTHUR STANLEY LANSDOWN
9. STOKER WILLIAM CECIL ROBINSON
10. RIFLEMAN JOHN RICHARD SMITH
11. LANCE CORPORAL JOHN WILLIAM STEPHENSON
12. 2ND LIEUTENANT JOHN SIMONS THOMA
13. GUNNER WILLIAM HEDLEY WALLIS
14. PRIVATE ERNEST LUDLOW WATSON
15. PRIVATE ARTHUR WILLERTON
16. PRIVATE THOMAS BINGLEY WILLEY
17. OFFICER'S COOK JOSEPH PINDER WILLSON
18. JOHN G. WOOD (UNKNOWN)

• FIRST WORLD WAR 1914 - 1918 TRUSTHORPE

1. PRIVATE THOMAS WILLIAM DAKIN
2. 2ND LIEUTENANT ISAAC NEWTON WOODIWISS

• SECOND WORLD WAR 1939-1945

1. GEORGE W. GREEN (UNKNOWN)
2. LIEUTENANT KENNETH MCLEOD MORRISON
3. GUNNER CYRIL GEORGE EDWARD ROSSINGTON
4. LANCE BOMBADIER HORACE WILLIAM TOW

• OTHER ARMED CONFLICTS

1. CONSTABLE ANTHONY DEREK MITCHELL
2. PRIVATE MARTIN ROBINSON

• The "Preferred" name in the 1800s was "Sutton in the Marsh", but "Sutton le Marsh" was an accepted alternative.
   
• "Sutton in the Marsh" is now "Sutton on Sea". [John Greateau]
   
• In some records, you may find the parish listed as "Sutton West Alford".
   

• This place was an ancient parish of Lincolnshire and became a modern Civil Parish.
   
• The parish covered 2,096 acres in 1881, but was reduced by almost 300 acres to 1,807 acres by 1891.
   
• The parish was in the ancient Calceworth Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
   
• For today's governance, see the East Lindsey District Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Alford petty session hearings every other week.
   
• In 1741, George SCOTTRETH left a bequest of 46 shillings per year for the poor.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the parish became part of the Spilsby Poor Law Union.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	126
1831	185
1861	362
1871	362
1881	360
1891	495
1901	571
1911	835
1921	1,605
1931	1,192
1951	1,418
1961	1,341

• A National School was built in 1862. Each child paid a penny per week to attend.
   
• The school became a board school in 1887, and a council school in 1903. It became a primary school in 1964, and has been called the Sutton on Sea Community Primary School since 1999.
   
• See our Schools page for more information on researching school records.