Sutton-in-Ashfield
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Image:Sutton market.jpgSutton-in-Ashfield is a town in the Ashfield district of Nottinghamshire, England, with a population of around 40,000. It is close to Mansfield.
The main tourist attraction in Sutton-in-Ashfield, is the largest sundial in Europe. It is located in the middle of Portland Square, adjacent to the Idlewells Shopping Centre and Sutton Centre Community College. Image:Sutton sundial 4.JPG
Another tourist attraction in Sutton-in-Ashfield is The Ashfield Show, held in August on Sutton Lawn, and includes everything from fairground rides, local businesses and services showing their presance, live music, classic cars and steam engines and much more.
History
The area was first settled in Saxon times and the Saxon suffix 'ton' means 'an enclosure or fenced in clearing'. The town appears in the Domesday Book as ‘Sutone’. There are also documents from 1189 showing that Gerard, son of Walter de Sutton, gave two bovates of land and the church at Sutton to Thurgaton Priory.