Sutton-on-Trent

Sutton on Trent
Village and civil parish
Sutton-on-Trent field, taken on Main Street
Parish map
Sutton on Trent Location within Nottinghamshire
Area	4.14 sq mi (10.7 km2)
Population	1,417 (2021)
• Density	342/sq mi (132/km2)
OS grid reference	SK 794658
• London	120 mi (190 km) SSE
District	Newark and Sherwood
Shire county	Nottinghamshire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	NEWARK
Postcode district	NG23
Dialling code	01636
Police	Nottinghamshire
Fire	Nottinghamshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
UK Parliament	Newark
Website	www.suttonontrent.org.uk
List of places UK England Nottinghamshire 53°11′06″N 0°48′29″W / 53.185°N 0.808°W / 53.185; -0.808

Sutton-on-Trent is a large village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, situated on the Great North Road, and on the west bank of the River Trent.

The village contains 2,651 acres (4.142 sq mi; 1,073 ha; 10.73 km²) of land and according to the 2001 census it had a population of 1,327,^[1] increasing marginally to 1,331 at the 2011 census,^[2] and more substantially to 1,417 at the 2021 census.^[3]

It is located eight miles (13 km) north of Newark-on-Trent, which takes approximately 20 minutes to reach by car, and ten miles (16 km) miles south of Retford, which takes approximately 22 minutes to reach by car.

Sutton Mill was a stone-built tower windmill, built in 1825^{[citation needed]}. It was owned by the Bingham family of Grassthorpe from the 1860s until 1984. The four-storey tower has been converted to a house.^[4]

Sir Godfrey Hounsfield was born in Sutton-on-Trent on 28 August 1919, he went on to share the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Allan MacLeod Cormack for his part in developing the diagnostic technique of X-ray computed tomography (CT).^[5][6] The doctors Surgery on Hounsfield Way is named for him. He is buried in the cemetery on Ingram lane.