Sutton, Selby

Sutton
Sutton
	Sutton Location within North Yorkshire
OS grid reference	SE495253
Civil parish	Byram cum Sutton;
District	Selby;
Shire county	North Yorkshire;
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	KNOTTINGLEY
Postcode district	WF11
Dialling code	01977
Police	North Yorkshire
Fire	North Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
UK Parliament	Selby;
	List of places UK England Yorkshire 53°43′19″N 1°15′07″W / 53.722°N 1.252°W

Sutton is a small village in the Selby District in North Yorkshire, England. It lies 1 mile north of Knottingley, across the River Aire in West Yorkshire.

The toponym is from the Old English sūð tūn, meaning "south farmstead". The place was once known as Sutton in Elmet, from its location in the district of Elmet.^[1] Sutton was historically a township in the ancient parish of Brotherton in the West Riding of Yorkshire.^[2] It became a separate civil parish in 1866, but in 1891 the civil parish was abolished and merged with the civil parish of Byram cum Poole to form the civil parish of Byram cum Sutton.^[3] In 1974 it was transferred to the new county of North Yorkshire.

References

^ Smith, A.H. (1961). The Place-names of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Vol. 4. Cambridge University Press. p. 47.
^ GENUKI website
^ Vision of Britain website

External links

Media related to Sutton, Selby at Wikimedia Commons

[1] Smith, A.H. (1961). The Place-names of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Vol. 4. Cambridge University Press. p. 47.

[2] GENUKI website

[3] Vision of Britain website

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