Sutton Bonington
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The attractive village of "Sutton Bonington" lies along valley of the River Soar in the Borough of Rushcliffe, south west Nottinghamshire, England - close to the border with Leicestershire and Derbyshire (in fact the postal address is Loughborough, Leicestershire). The parish covers some 2200 acres and includes the hamlet of Zouch. The population is about 1600, not including the students at the University of Nottingham Sutton Bonington Campus, who bring the total to over 2000 in term time.
Originally Sutton and Bonington were two settlements, probably going back to Anglo-Saxon times (the names derive from Buna’s Town and South Town). In the Middle Ages the two villages gradually grew together along the edge of the flood plain of the River Soar to make one long, narrow village. Zouch is an example of a small canal settlement, though there was a mill there long before the Soar was made navigable.