18th Century
The most noteworthy of the 18th- and 19th-century cottages and farm-houses are Derwent and Glebe Farms; both have internal chimney plans and may be of the late 17th century in origin.
By the 18th century commons were restricted to the southern parts of the township, where they included South wood.
The river Derwent was improved for navigation in the early 18th century, but the cut and lock near Sutton mill are on the Elvington bank.
There was at least one alehouse in Sutton in the early 18th century and two or three licensed houses later in the century.
Early in the 18th century the walls of the Manor were rebuilt in brick, and later in the same century a wing was added on the west.
The riverside meadows included several used in common. Others were inclosed and in the early 18th century there were a dozen of them, including the Mask or Marsh, the Swallow, the Dimple, and Wildgoose hill. The last-named no doubt indicates the winter use made by wildfowl of the flooded ings, as in Wheldrake.
The name ‘SWALLOW’ is connected to Old English SWALG –a gulf, a pit or a whirlpool. It may be a reference to “a mill called SWALEWE” it is a nickname for a mill ‘the devourer’ or the like.
The hospital was dissolved in 1702 and its property reverted to the Crown. The Coore family were lessees in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Sir John Granville's grandson W. H. Granville, the 3rd earl, died in 1711 without issue and his estates passed to his aunts Catherine Peyton, Grace Carteret, and Jane Leveson-Gower.
Thomas Wilberfoss (d. 1722) bequeathed £2 a year for the poor out of either Browney Hill close or 2 a. of meadow in West carr.
The church plate includes two pewter plates dated 1723, and plated flagon and paten.
The Glebe Farm house (mentioned from 1663) was rebuilt in 1726.
Salmon-poaching at Sutton was alleged in 1729.
In 1731 Grace and Jane's son John Leveson-Gower, created Earl Gower, conveyed the manor to Sir Thomas Clarges (d. 1759).
1st Earl of St. Vincent started as John Jervis in 1735.
There were 40 families in the parish in 1743.
The rector was resident in the 18th and 19th centuries, but he was also curate of Wilberfoss in 1743.
Two services were held at Sutton each Sunday in 1743, and Holy Communion was celebrated, 4 times a year, with 52 communicants the previous Easter.
Schoolhouse garth was recorded in 1749.
There was only one service a week held at Sutton in 1764.
The rector, John Sarraude also held Elvington rectory in 1764.
There were 38 families in the parish in 1764.
There were three bells in the church in 1764.
The Glebe Farm house (mentioned from 1663 and rebuilt in 1726) contained three main ground-floor rooms, service rooms, and seven bedrooms in 1764.
There was a Roman Catholic family in the village in 1764.
The tithes of Sutton township were commuted at the enclosure in 1776 for 194a. 2r. 33p of land and a yearly modus of £58. 4s but the Woodhouse estate was still tithable.
Final inclosure took place in 1777.
Two of the Woodhouse farm-houses, together with St. Loys, already existed before inclosure in 1777.
Sir Thomas Clarges's grandson Sir Thomas (d. 1783) was awarded 752 a. at inclosure in 1777.
By the later 18th century the remaining open-field land lay in High, Prickett Gate, Stone Breach or Breck, and Moor Land fields. The open fields and common meadows and pastures were inclosed in 1777 under an Act Of 1776. A total Of 780 a. were allotted and there were stated to be 1,618 a. of ancient inclosures in the township, c. 200 a. of which were the subject of exchanges under the award. Allotments of 54 a. were made from Prickett Gate field, 61 a. from Stone Breck field, 56 a. from High field, and 57 a. from Moor Land field. Allotments from the meadows comprised 34 a. in Low grounds, 5 a. in the carr, and 6 a. in Northlands, and those from the common pastures amounted to 177 a. in the moor, 208 a. in South wood, and 122 a. in Wynam Bottom. Sir Thomas Clarges as lord of the manor received 752 a. of new and 14 a. of ancient inclosures, the rector got 185 a. of ancient inclosures, and Robert Wilberfoss got 30 a. all told.
For those in Sutton township, together with the glebe, the rector received an allotment of 185 a. and rent-charges of £58 4s. 5½d. at inclosure in 1777.
A house (or barn) was licensed for worship in 1784.
At Woodhouse there were two farms, of 505 a. and 663 a., in 1785; each included much land described as 'common', but there was little woodland.
The Methodists had 13-29 members in Sutton in 1789.
The 1st Earl of St. Vincent (who started as John Jervis in 1735) distinguished himself at sea in the Mediterranean, winning the battle of St. Vincent in 1797.
Burials from the Burials Register in 1799 were:
Age Distemper
1 year Scarlett Fever
18 years Consumption
59 years Fall from a house
63 years Fever
78 years Natural Decay
86 years Natural Decay
7 months Dysentery
31 years Child Bed
24 years A venereal disorder
77 years Natural Decay
Other deaths at the end of the 18th Century from the Burials Register were from:
Fits, Decline, Cancer, Asthma, Dropsy, Scrophula, Sudden Death, Rhumatism, Inflamation, Mortification, Paralytic Stroke, Fever in the Brain.
The church nave roof was probably renewed in the 18th century.
Manor Farm dates from the 18th century.
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