SUTTON, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Chichester district, Sussex. The village stands 3 miles S of Petworth r. station, and has a post-office under Petworth.—The parish contains a workhouse, and comprises 2,061 acres. Real property, £1,785. Pop., 364. Houses, 67. The manor belonged, in the Saxon times, to the Crown; went, after the Norman conquest, to Earl Montgomery; and belongs now to Lord Leconfield. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £256.* Patron, Lord Leconfield. The church is early, decorated, and later English. There is a parochial school.—The sub-district contains 11 parishes. Acres, 16,216. Pop., 2,763. Houses, 576.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))