Editing Sutton-in-Ashfield (section)

==History==
The area was first settled in the Saxon times and the Saxon suffix "ton" means "an enclosure or fenced in clearing".<ref>[http://www.touruk.co.uk/nottinghamshire/Sutton-in-Ashfield.htm Sutton-in-Ashfield Tourist Information] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402102327/http://www.touruk.co.uk/nottinghamshire/Sutton-in-Ashfield.htm |date=2 April 2015 }} at tourUK.co.uk – the holiday and travel guide to the UK</ref> The town appears in the [[Domesday Book]] in 1086 as "Sutone". 

Sutton-in-Ashfield like [[Mansfield]] were part the land of [[Edward the Confessor]] and later the land of [[William the Conqueror]] upon the [[Norman Conquest]] in 1066. <ref> Peter’s R. J. (1989), The Ancient Villages of Skegby and Teversal, North Trent Local History Series, 3, p 13, 28, 30</ref> 

Edward the Confessor and William the Conqueror were also the lord of the manor house of Sutton in Ashfield. In the 16th century the former manor house was passed unto James Hardwick, the brother of Countess of Shrewsbury [[Bess of Hardwick]]. On the death of her brother Bess passed the manor house unto her daughter [[Mary Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury|Mary Talbot]]. <ref>Bonser G, 1993, A History of Sutton-in- Ashfield, Nottinghamshire Leisure Services, p51, 52, ISBN 0900094353X</ref>

There are also documents from 1189 showing that Gerard, son of Walter de Sutton, gave two [[bovate]]s of land and the church at Sutton to [[Thurgarton#History|Thurgarton Priory]].