Official Name: | Sutton Wick |
Static Image Name: | Bridleway to Sutton Wick - geograph.org.uk - 1355065.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | Bridleway to Sutton Wick |
Coordinates: | 51.6473°N -1.3077°W |
Os Grid Reference: | SU480945 |
Label Position: | left |
Civil Parish: | Drayton |
Shire District: | Vale of White Horse |
Shire County: | Oxfordshire |
Region: | South East England |
Country: | England |
Post Town: | Abingdon |
Postcode District: | OX14 |
Postcode Area: | OX |
Dial Code: | 01235 |
Constituency Westminster: | Wantage |
Website: | Drayton near Abingdon |
Sutton Wick is a hamlet contiguous with the village of Drayton, in the Vale of White Horse district, in the county of Oxfordshire, England. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire.
Sutton Wick was formerly a township in the parish of Sutton-Courtney,[1] in 1866 Sutton Wick became a separate civil parish, on 1 April 1934 the parish was abolished and merged with Drayton, Abingdon and Sutton Courtenay.[2] In 1931 the parish had a population of 267.[3]
See main article: Sutton Wick air crash. A Blackburn Beverley C.Mk 1 heavy transport aircraft on a flight from RAF Abingdon crashed at Sutton Wick on 5 March 1957. All but four of the 22 people aboard were killed in the accident, and two people were killed on the ground.