__NOTOC__ Sutterton is a village and rural parish in the Boston District of

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, England. The population of the

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at the 2011 census was 1,585.

Governance

The parish used to form part of the Boston Rural District, in the

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. Holland was one of the three divisions of the traditional County of Lincolnshire. Since the Local Government Act of 1888 Holland had been, in most respects, a county in itself. The village is one of eighteen

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which, together with

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, form the

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. Local governance has been arranged as such since the reorganization of 1 April 1974 resulting from the

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. The parish forms part of the 'Five Villages' electoral ward. Sutterton

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is dedicated to St Mary the Blessed Virgin.

Geography

Sutterton lies approximately south-west of Boston, near the junction of the A16 and A17 roads and on the B1397 (formerly A16). The village of Kirton lies to the north-west. The Spalding bypass opened as the 'Spalding-Sutterton Improvement' in 1995.

Community

Sutterton has a post office and general store, one public house and restaurant, a fish-and-chip shop, a garden centre, a veterinary practice, a doctors' practice and a village hall used in conjunction with the primary school. Close to the east is Algarkirk, with which Sutterton shares Sutterton Fourfields Primary School. Before 1970 the two villages also shared the Algarkirk and Sutterton railway station"Old Station"
''geograph.org.uk''; retrieved 10 April 2011 on the Spalding to Boston line, now next to the A16.

References

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