Town in the East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England
Human settlement in England
Sutton-on-Sea
(originally
Sutton in the Marsh
or
Sutton le Marsh
) is a seaside town in the
East Lindsey
district of
Lincolnshire
, England, beside a long sandy beach along the
Lincolnshire Coast
and north sea. The town is part of the
civil parish
of
Mablethorpe and Sutton
. The southern part of the town is known as
Sandilands
and nearby is also
Trusthorpe
.
History
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At very low tides it is possible to view the remains of an ancient mixed forest on the beaches of Mablethorpe and Sutton on Sea. It was submerged by
rising sea levels
about 3000 years ago.
[1]
[2]
The first scholar to publish an analysis of this submarine forest ? and of any submarine forest ? was the Portuguese botanist and polymath,
Jose Francisco Correia da Serra
, who surveyed it in 1796, when he visited the area in the company of the distinguished naturalist Sir
Joseph Banks
.
[3]
[4]
Sea flooding was a periodic problem during the Middle Ages. The last flood was the
North Sea flood of January 1953
, when a ten-foot
storm surge
broke through the flood defences.
[5]
The parish church
St Clement's Church
is a Grade II
listed building
, dedicated to
Saint Clement
. It was built in 1818?19 on a new site, after the previous church was destroyed by the sea.
[6]
Railway influence
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The
Alford and Sutton Tramway
ran from
Alford
to Sutton-on-Sea on rails set into the road. It opened in 1884 and closed five years later.
[7]
[8]
Sutton-on-Sea railway station
opened as part of the
Sutton and Willoughby Railway
in 1886, which connected the town southwards, enabling through holiday trains from the industrial Midlands and North of England to reach the resort. In 1888 the line was extended to Mablethorpe. The railway connection encouraged development in Sutton; between July and December 1889 40,328 passengers were carried to Sutton, 1,700 more than to Mablethorpe in the same period.
[9]
The railway stations and line in the town closed on 5 October 1970.
[9]
Harbour plans
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Sutton le Marsh (as it was then called) was considered to be an ideal location for a new fishing harbour. The Sutton & Willoughby Railway & Dock Company was authorised by Parliament on 28 July 1884 to build docks at Sutton, and to make a railway branch line to the main line at Willoughby. Authorised share capital was £60,000. The company was unable to raise the capital it needed, and it built only the railway line and not the dock.
In December 1886 a fresh concern, the North Sea Fisheries Harbour & Dock Company promoted the scheme again, and it asked the
Great Northern Railway
for financial assistance. The GNR was the dominant network in the area, and at that time rail conveyance of fresh fish to the centres of population was good business for railway companies. Grimsby was well served by a rival railway company, the
Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway
and the North Sea Fisheries company hoped that the GNR would fund the construction. However the GNR saw that the dock expenditure would be very heavy, and would not pay, and it refused.
[10]
The idea of a new harbour was revived in 1891, when the
Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway
was authorised to build a railway line across the country to Sutton. Sutton was preferred to Boston, which was also considered, because land was available at Sutton, and
Trinity House
said that Sutton was the best site for a port of refuge on that coast. This was a huge project, and once again the company was unable to raise the money it needed; it built a small portion of the planned railway, and did not start the harbour works. Eventually the company became owned by the
Great Central Railway
, which developed
Immingham Docks
from 1906.
[9]
Education
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Sutton on Sea Community Primary School was built in 1862 as a
National School
, becoming 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.
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Media
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Local news and television programmes are provided by
BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire
and
ITV Yorkshire
. Television signals are received from the
Belmont
TV transmitter.
[12]
Local radio stations are
BBC Radio Lincolnshire
,
Greatest Hits Radio Lincolnshire
,
Lincs FM
and Coastal FM, a community based station.
[13]
The town is served by the local newspaper,
Mablethorpe & Sutton Leader
which publishes Wednesdays.
[14]
Demography
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When the 2011 census was taken, Sutton on Sea had two electoral wards,
North
and
South
. The south ward ranked, out of all 8570 nationwide, second by proportion of retirees in the total population, and the north ward ranked sixth. Between these, ranking third, was neighbouring
Trusthorpe and Mablethorpe South
, since which time the ward has been redrawn as Mablethorpe). The proportion on average, nationally was 15.6%; in the three wards mentioned the proportions respectively were: 45.5% retired, 41.1% retired and 42.1% retired.
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References
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- References
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"Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment"
.
Project 3279
. English Heritage. p. 22
. Retrieved
10 June
2011
.
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"Sutton on Sea Forest"
. Sutton on Sea website
. Retrieved
10 June
2011
.
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de Serra, Joseph Correa (1799).
"On a Submarine Forest, on the East Coast of England. By Joseph Correa de Serra, LL. D. F. R. S. and A. S."
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
.
89
: 145?156.
Bibcode
:
1799RSPT...89..145C
.
ISSN
0261-0523
.
JSTOR
107029
.
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Baillon, Henri (1886).
Dictionnaire de Botanique
. Paris: Hachette. pp. Vol. 2, p. 230.
- ^
Local home page
Retrieved 12 September 2017.
- ^
"British Listed Buildings"
.
St Clement, Sutton On Sea
. English Heritage
. Retrieved
10 June
2011
.
- ^
"Alford to Sutton Tramway"
. Alford Website
. Retrieved
10 June
2011
.
- ^
"This Is Grimsby"
. Grimsby. Archived from
the original
on 13 September 2012
. Retrieved
10 June
2011
.
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a
b
c
Robin Leleux,
A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: volume 9: The East Midlands
, David and Charles (Publishers) Limited, Newton Abbot, 1976,
ISBN
0 7153 7165 7
, pages 206 to 208
- ^
John Wrottesley,
The Great Northern Railway: volume II: Expansion and Competition
, B T Batsford Limited, London, 1979,
ISBN
0 7134 1592 4
, page 145
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"Lincs to the Past"
.
Sutton on Sea Community Primary School
. Lincolnshire Archives
. Retrieved
10 June
2011
.
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"Belmont (Lincolnshire, England) Full Freeview transmitter"
.
UK Free TV
. 1 May 2004
. Retrieved
29 January
2024
.
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Coastal FM.
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"Mablethorpe & Sutton Leader"
.
British Papers
. 28 August 2013
. Retrieved
29 January
2024
.
- ^
UK Government statistics
https://www.nomisweb.co.uk
Data Downloads [or on-screen generation] - Query - KS106EW: Households with Adults in "Employment" in wards in England and Wales
- Notes
External links
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Historic subdivisions
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Holland
,
Kesteven
,
Lindsey
History and notable places
:
Belton House
,
Bolingbroke Castle
,
Boston Stump
,
Cadwell Park
,
Cross Keys Bridge
,
Crowland Abbey
,
Donna Nook
,
Dunham Bridge
,
Far Ings
,
Frampton Marsh
,
Freiston Shore
,
Gibraltar Point
,
Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre
,
Humber Bridge
,
Kinema in the Woods
,
Kingdom of Lindsey
,
Lincoln Castle
,
Lincoln Cathedral
,
Lincoln Cliff
,
Lincolnshire Fens
,
Market Rasen Racecourse
,
Museum of Lincolnshire Life
,
Tattershall Castle
,
The Wash
,
The Wolds
,
Usher Gallery
,
Winceby Battlefield
,
Woolsthorpe Manor
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