Sutton Lane Ends or Sutton is a semi-rural village and

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 ...

, approximately one mile south of

Macclesfield Macclesfield is a market town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England. It is located on the River Bollin in the east of the county, on the edge of the Cheshire Plain, with Macclesfield Forest to its e ...

. In 2020 it had an estimated population of 936. The parish includes the villages of Langley and Oakgrove and the

hamlets A hamlet is a human settlement that is smaller than a town or village. Its size relative to a parish can depend on the administration and region. A hamlet may be considered to be a smaller settlement or subdivision or satellite entity to a lar ...

Gurnett Gurnett is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Donald Gurnett {1940-2022), American physicist * George Gurnett ( 1792–1861), Canadian journalist and politician * Jane Gurnett (born 1957), English actress *Jim Gurnett (born 1949), ...

, Jarman and Lyme Green. Sutton is in the unitary authority of

Cheshire East Cheshire East is a unitary authority area with borough status in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The local authority is Cheshire East Council. Towns within the area include Crewe, Macclesfield, Congleton, Sandbach, Wilmslow, Handf ...

and the ceremonial county of

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, England. The rivers

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and Rosendale run through Sutton Lane Ends, as does the

Macclesfield Canal The Macclesfield Canal is a canal in east Cheshire, England. There were various proposals for a canal to connect the town of Macclesfield to the national network from 1765 onwards, but it was not until 1824 that a scheme came to fruition. There ...

. The population of the entire civil parish is 2,464.2001 census details
Accessed 15 May 2007. In the past, the community was centred on farming, forestry and textiles; however, since these industries declined, most of the population now travel to nearby Macclesfield or

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for employment. Sutton Lane Ends has had an Anglican church, Sutton St. James, since 1840. The community of Sutton is served by a village shop,

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(Hollinhey Primary School) and five

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Education

Sutton is served by Hollinhey

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for pupils aged 4–11. On leaving primary school, children usually attend one of the four high schools in Macclesfield (

All Hallows Catholic College, Macclesfield All Hallows' Catholic College is a Roman Catholic co-educational secondary school and sixth form in Macclesfield in Cheshire, England. It educates approximately 1200 children between 11 and 18 years of age. The college became a voluntary acad ...

The Fallibroome Academy The Fallibroome Academy is a mixed secondary academy school in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England. It has approximately 1554 students, including around 345 in the sixth form. The school is a specialist performing arts college, leading edge, nation ...

The Macclesfield Academy Macclesfield Academy is an Academy situated in Macclesfield, Cheshire. The Academy opened on 1 September 2011 following the decision of Cheshire East Council to close Macclesfield High School which had previously operated on the same site. It is ...

Tytherington High School Tytherington School is an academy in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England. The school has experienced a surge in popularity in the last few years and as of September will have approximately 1,300 pupils, with ages ranging from 11–18. Like many scho ...

Notable people

Charles Tunnicliffe Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe, OBE, RA (1 December 1901 – 7 February 1979) was an internationally renowned naturalistic painter of British birds and other wildlife. He spent most of his working life on the Isle of Anglesey. He is popularly k ...

, the renowned naturalistic painter of British birds and other wildlife, spent his early years living on a farm on Walker Lane in Sutton. His work is still celebrated with the Charles and Winifred Tunnicliffe Memorial Art Competition, which is held annually at Hollinhey Primary School. * The engineer

James Brindley James Brindley (1716 – 27 September 1772) was an English engineer. He was born in Tunstead, Derbyshire, and lived much of his life in Leek, Staffordshire, becoming one of the most notable engineers of the 18th century. Early life Born ...

(1716–1772) undertook his apprenticeship in Gurnett in about 1733. A plaque commemorating this fact can still be seen on Plough Cottage. *

Christine Tacon Christine Mary Tacon CBE (born 29 October 1959) was a British government administrator. Tacon was the United Kingdom's first Groceries Code Adjudicator. Early life Christine was born in the Hartismere Rural District in Suffolk, England. Tacon ...

CBE (born 1959), the Groceries Code Adjudicator, lives here.

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Sutton St. James Anglican Church
Villages in Cheshire Towns and villages of the Peak District Borough of Cheshire East {{Cheshire-geo-stub

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