| Country: | England |
| Official Name: | Sutterton |
| Static Image Name: | St. Mary the Blessed Virgin, Sutterton - geograph.org.uk - 120962.jpg |
| Static Image Caption: | St. Mary the Blessed Virgin, Sutterton |
| Coordinates: | 52.8936°N -0.0816°W |
| Os Grid Reference: | TF283357 |
| Population Ref: | |
| Shire County: | Lincolnshire |
| Region: | East Midlands |
| Post Town: | BOSTON |
| Postcode District: | PE20 |
| Postcode Area: | PE |
| Dial Code: | 01205 |
| London Distance Mi: | 95 |
| London Direction: | S |
Sutterton is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Boston in Lincolnshire, England, approximately 6miles south-west of Boston. The population of the parish at the 2021 census was 1,769,[1] up from 1,585 in 2011.[2]
Sutterton parish church is dedicated to St Mary the Blessed Virgin.[3] The village 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.[4]
The village is one of eighteen parishes which, together with Boston, form the Borough of Boston in Lincolnshire. The parish forms part of the 'Five Villages' electoral ward.
Before local government reorganisation in 1974, the parish was part of the Boston Rural District in the Parts of Holland division of Lincolnshire.
Sutterton is near the junction of the A16 and A17 roads and on the B1397. The Spalding bypass opened as the 'Spalding-Sutterton Improvement' in 1995.
The contract was given to May Gurney for £4,402,863 in June 1993 for 3 miles.[5] [6] Work started in July 1993. The bypass was opened on Friday 30 June 1995 by Lawrie Haynes, chief of the Highways Agency.[7] [8]
Until its closure in 1970, the village was served by Algarkirk and Sutterton railway station[9] on the Spalding to Boston line.