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It is seven miles round the edge of Sutton Park, and traditionally the boundary was a wooden fence known as palings - way back in 1569 two boys, George and Anthony Careless, were fined a shilling each for breaking down the park palings. But for th...
An account of the property and tithes belonging to the Rectory of Sutton Coldfield was handed in to the Bishop’s Court at Lichfield on the twenty-second day of August 1801. First came the “Parsonage House” with its “two gar...
Sutton Rectory stood in Rectory Park beside Rectory Road. It was surrounded by the glebe land belonging to the rectory, including the present Rectory Park and some fields on the opposite side of Rectory Road. The graveyard at Sutton church was nea...
When ownership of Sutton Park passed to the corporation of the newly created royal town of Sutton Coldfield in 1528 the value of the grazing there was assessed at eleven pounds a year. After the town’s benefactor, Bishop Vesey, improved the park i...
The Plantagenet kings of England were fanatical about hunting. William the Conqueror designated vast swathes of the country as forests, with laws to protect the game, and brought over from France his favorite beast of the chase, the fallow deer, w...
On Tuesday the eleventh of April 1854 a great crowd gathered in Sutton Coldfield to call for changes in the government of the town. The protest meeting was held in the open air at Cliftons Hills (where the railway station car park is now), and it ...
Colonel Edward Ansell of Rigby Hall, Bromsgrove, wanted to move to Sutton. He was a wealthy man, a Birmingham alderman and owner of Ansell’s Brewery, and in 1903 he bought Moor Hall. Moor Hall, with its Regency frontage and fine portico, was vaca...
Most of the houses in Sutton in 1500 were single-storey buildings. The main room had a central hearth, and the smoke from the fire escaped through vents in the thatched roof. There was not much furniture - benches and a table, and a bed with curta...
Prehistoric travellers made pathways through the countryside, finding the firmest routes to cross marshy valleys. One such, the valley of the E brook in Sutton Coldfield (where The Mall now stands) was a morass of quicksands and bogs, and the old ...
The Warden and Society of Sutton, incorporated by Royal Charter in 1528, governed a population of less than 1000 and an area of about twenty square miles. Less than one third of this area was occupied by fields or houses, the rest (apart from Sutt...
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