Sutton Cum Lound is a village located in

Bassetlaw Bassetlaw may refer to: * Bassetlaw (UK Parliament constituency), Nottinghamshire constituency in the British House of Commons * Bassetlaw District General Hospital, a National Health Service hospital in Worksop, Nottinghamshire * Bassetlaw Distri ...

, north

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. It is located 3 miles from

Retford Retford (), also known as East Retford, is a market town in the Bassetlaw District in Nottinghamshire, England, and one of the oldest English market towns having been granted its first charter in 1105. It lies on the River Idle and the Chesterfie ...

. The

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of Parish (administrative division), administrative parish used for Local government in England, local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below district ...

is called Sutton. According to the 2001 census it has a population of 687, including

Tithby Tithby (sometimes spelt "Tythby", locally pronounced "Tidby") is an English village in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire, about south of the market town of Bingham. The civil parishes of Tithby and Wiverton Hall have a joint annual pari ...

and falling slightly to 673 at the 2011 census. The parish church of St Bartholomew is

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, rebuilt in the

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style, with "''unbridled curvilinear tracery''" in the chancel windows. The village has a primary school. It borders the village of

Barnby Moor Barnby Moor is a village and civil parish in the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire, England, with a population of 257 (2001 census), increasing to the 2011 Census to 278. The village is about three miles north of East Retford. Geography Th ...

which is about 1 mile away and is also very close to the village of Lound. The village has a number of public footpaths and walks such as those on Mire Hill. In 958, King Edgar granted an estate at Sutton to

Oscytel Oscytel (or Oskytel or Oscetel; died 971) was a medieval Bishop of Dorchester and Archbishop of York. Early life Oscytel was probably of Danish ancestry.Duckett ''Alfred the Great'' p. 127''Oscytel, Oskytel'' is the anglicized version of the ...

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. The village sometimes has traffic problems caused by the Level crossing on Station Road which leads to Barnby Moor, The crossing goes over the East Coast Main Line which is a very busy railway line. However, there are three entrances to the village in total. The village is also very close to Wetlands Wildlife Park near Lound and many of its fishing lakes as well as the

Idle Valley Nature Reserve The Idle Valley Nature Reserve, also known as Lound Gravel Pits or Sutton and Lound Gravel Pits, is a wetland Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) situated north-west of the town of Retford in the Bassetlaw district of north Nottinghamsh ...

wetlands Site of Special Scientific Interest to the east of the village within walking distance. Mike Reid, an actor who played the part of

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in the

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programme EastEnders used to live in the village in the late 1970s.

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