Sutton on the Hill

Sutton on the Hill
Sutton on the Hill is located in Derbyshire
Sutton on the Hill
Sutton on the Hill
Location within Derbyshire
Population123 (2011)
OS grid referenceSK234336
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townASHBOURNE
Postcode districtDE6
Dialling code01283
PoliceDerbyshire
FireDerbyshire
AmbulanceEast Midlands
List of places
UK
England
Derbyshire
52°54′00″N 1°39′11″W / 52.900°N 1.653°W / 52.900; -1.653

Sutton-on-the-Hill is a parish in south Derbyshire, eight miles (13 km) west of Derby. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 Census was 123.[1] The village is widely spread out and contains both a church (which, unlike most of the village, is on the hill) and a chapel. It was described as "a parish, with two townships and a hamlet"[2] in the 1870s. Now it has no shop or post office and limited public transport links. Sutton on the Hill is primarily an agricultural area with former dairy farms at either end of the village, along with the Sutton Estate Farm.[citation needed] The village school has been converted into a village hall[3] and has a nursery school for the local villages.[4]

  1. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
  2. ^ Wilson, John Marius (1870–1872). "Sutton-on-the-Hill". Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales. London & Edinburgh: A. Fullarton and Co. – via Vision of Britain.
  3. ^ "Sutton on the Hill Village Hall". HallsHire.com. 11 January 2020. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  4. ^ "Home page". Sutton on the Hill Pre-School. Retrieved 9 October 2022.