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Archaeologia Cantiana Vol. 55 -1942  pages 7
THE SUTTONS. By Gordon Ward, M.D., F.S.A.

propositions seem to be justified as a basis for further enquiry in other counties:

   1. Suttons lie south-west to south-east of particular inhabited centres and are not so named because of their relationship to natural features.
   2. Suttons are of later organization than these centres.
   3. Suttons are, or have been, subordinate members of Manors with their headquarters at such centres.
   4. The churches of Suttons are often recorded as ecclesiastically subordinate to the churches of such centres.
   5. Such centres are never named north-tun or Norton and commonly have names ending in -ham, or other names

 which we recognize as those associated with the very earliest settlements.
   6. Suttons may be several miles distant from these primary centres, with parts of other manors intervening.

   The names dealt with herein are (1) East Sutton, south of Mongeham; (2) Sutton at Hone, south of Dartford; (3) Sutton Valence, south of Faversham; (4) Sutton Baron, south of Milton Regis; (5) Sutton Farm, south of Eastbridge; (6) Sutton Hook Wood, south of Petham; (7) Suth-tun, south of Chilham; and Sutton, south of Rendlesham.

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