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This industrial town on the
western edge of Sherwood Forest has Saxon origins
and at one time lay in a wood consisting mostly of
ash trees. Its name appears in the Domesday Book
and its church - which still retains much of its
original architecture - was built by the Norman
family of de Sutton. Only a few miles from
Mansfield, Sutton has a history of coal mining
going back as far as the Middle Ages, though the
pits have now closed. Its other major industry,
the manufacture of hosiery, has survived. Cardinal
Wolsley passed through here on the medieval ‘Great
Way’ from Yorkshire to Nottingham. He stayed
briefly in the locality but died en route to
London. |
Mary Magdalene Church - Photo:
Ann Ballinger
CCL |
