Welcome to the Kings Sutton History Archive.

Our village of Kings Sutton is rich in history and over time many articles have been written telling its story, some published others not.

The work of Jacqueline Coombes, Don Hughes, Ann Daff and Robert Webb has formed the basis of the Archive and is much appreciated.

The Archive is aimed at recording, in one place, the history of over a thousand years of the village and its people. It’s a living document and more information will be added as it becomes available.

The Kings Sutton Heritage Trust sponsors the Archive and by publishing it on our website we hope to make the story of King's Sutton available to as many people as possible.

We all have a responsibility to future generations to encourage the maintenance of our local history – HISTORY MATTERS.

The archive will consist of a number of sections, detailed below......
 
1....Early history - Archaeology – Roman – Saxon 
2....The legend of St Rumbold 
3....Domesday Book 
4....Lords of the Manor – de Camvill, de Longspe, Lovell, Kenwrick, Willes, Brown
5....The Churches - SS Peter and Paul – Baptist - Methodist
6....Astrop Spa 1664
7....Great Fire of 1785
8....Enclosure Act of 1805
9....The Village School
10..Trades and Communications
11..Village people and Memories
 
Any comments or inputs would be appreciated and should be sent to me via the website.

email me here

John Wheatley
Jan 2007

Please come back at your leisure as
these pages will be updated as soon as
possible with further sections of the Archive.