19th Century
The hospital (dissolved in 1702 when its property reverted to the Crown) was leased by the Coore family in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
The rector, John Sarraude also held Elvington rectory and Coleby (Lincs.) at his death in 1800.
The population in 1801 was 274.
There were 1,084 a. under crops at Sutton in 1801, including 387 a. of oats, 202 a. of turnips or rape, and 186 a. of wheat.
A Sutton dealer used the river in 1807.
A house (or barn) was licensed for worship in 1815.
The Methodists had 13-29 members in Sutton in 1816
There was a school with 33 pupils in 1819
A house (or barn) was licensed for worship in 1820
There was said to be a Methodist chapel in the village in 1823
By 1823 the Cross Keys and the Ram's Head were in existence.
Another Sir Thomas Clarges (d. 1834) had 1,955 a. in Sutton in 1823.
A school was begun in Sutton in1824
The mill was rebuilt in 1826-7 following a fire the grinding floor was divided into 'the flour mill end', 'the corn mill', and 'the country mill end'. Then and later the mill had seven pairs of stones, two water-wheels, and in adjoining buildings a granary, a drying kiln, and a shelling mill.
In 1824, 5s. a year was distributed in Sutton
The Church’s average annual income in 1829-31 was £509 net
Three houses (or barns) were licensed for worship in 1830
A house (or barn) was licensed for worship in 1831
The population was 417 in 1831
The school (begun in 1824) had 60 pupils in 1833, when it was partly supported by Sir Thomas Clarges and the rector, Clarges also providing a house.
No manorial records and no parochial records before 1835 are known.
Sutton joined Pocklington poor-law union in 1836
A Wesleyan chapel was said to have been built in 1838
The Ram's Head was replaced by the Clarges Arms by 1840
Some repairs to the church were carried out in 1841, when the chancel arch and the porch were rebuilt and the chancel roof may have been renewed
At Woodhouse in 1844 arable amounted to 460 a., grass to 232 a., heath to 122 a., and wood to 168 a., and roads and wastes covered 87 a.
The tithes of Woodhouse were commuted for £160 in 1844
A new school building was erected in 1844 supported by subscription
A house (or barn) was licensed for worship in 1846
The north aisle of the Church was rebuilt in 1846
There was a brickworks at Woodhouse in the 1840s and 1850s.
An area of rough pasture at Woodhouse was known as the Warren in 1850
There was a landing-place on the river in Sutton, near the bridge, in 1850.
The later water-mill was on the Derwent. An 'old mill race' was shown crossing the meadow called the Dimple in 1850, but there is no evidence of a mill there and it is likely that Sutton mill has for long stood on its present site, south of the bridge
An annual government grant for the school was first received by 1850
In the 19th and 20th centuries there have usually been a dozen farms in Sutton township and 2 in Woodhouse. In 1851 2 of those in Sutton were of Over 300 a. and 6 over 150 a., while of the 3 in Woodhouse that year one exceeded 500 a. and one 200 a
A Wesleyan chapel (said to have been built in 1838) was in use in 1851
A fisherman was among the inhabitants in 1851. There were salmon 'hecks', or gratings, beside the water-mill in the 19th century. Other men in non-agricultural employment included a lime and coal merchant (who was also the miller) and a timber merchant in the early 19th century
William Massey (d. c. 1849) bequeathed £10 for the poor and in 1854 his executors paid over the money to the rector and churchwardens
The Glebe farm house was rebuilt in 1854-5 to designs by John Bownas and William Atkinson of York; it is a substantial symmetrically-planned building of brick and slate
The rectory house was rebuilt in 1855
In 1856 the Parish included the Hamlet of Woodhouse
In 1856 the parish contains 3360 acres and 367 inhabitants of which 42 are in Woodhouse
The rateable value in 1856 is £ 3271
In 1856 the entire township except 42 acres belongs to Rd. Goddard Hare Clarges Esq - the Lord of the Manor
The living in 1856 is a rectory valued at £14. 14s. 7d in the patronage of the Lord of the Manor in incumbancy of Rev. Geo. Rudston Read
Although 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; the Woodhouse estate was still tithable in 1856
The living in 1856 is returned at the nett value of £509 per annum
In 1856 there were three bells in the church
In 1856 the very extensive flour mills were in the occupation of Mr. Joseph Hatfield
It was noted in 1856 that the springs in the place were strongly impregnated with iron
In 1856, the Manor House which is the residence of Mr. John Peston, is an ancient brick building close to the church nearly covered with ivy
In 1856 the poor parishioners have 40s a year (left by Thos. Wilberfoss in 1722 – a resident of Sutton) and 5s per annum from Wood’s charity
In 1856 Woodhouse hamlet contained 1070 acres which belonged to the crown
From the Clarges family the manor passed in 1857 to C. R. J. Jervis, subsequently Viscount St. Vincent (d. 1879).
Monuments in the church include a tablet by Skelton of York to George Beal, d. 1857
In 1859 the average attendance at the school was 44. The school was united with the National Society.
A chapel was registered by the Primitive Methodists in 1861
The rector employed an assistant curate in 1865
There was two services a week in 1865, when about 12 people attended communion 6 times a year.
In 1865 there were c. 12 Wesleyans but no place of worship
Communion was celebrated monthly in 1868
From at least 1872 to 1905 the publican at the Clarges, later the St. Vincent, Arms was also a brewer
A 'meeting-house' was used by the Wesleyan’s in 1872 (this was presumably the chapel registered by the Primitive Methodists in 1861)
The local school (established in 1824 and rebuilt in 1844) was added to in 1873
The chapel (registered by the Primitive Methodists in 1861) was deregistered in 1876
The Ram's Head (replaced by the Clarges Arms by 1840) was renamed the St. Vincent Arms by 1879
The St. Vincent Arms has pseudo black beams made from railway sleepers
An iron Wesleyan chapel was built in 1882
Opposite the junction with Whynham lane was the Wesltyan Chapel. A temporary iron structure built in 1882 (standing until 1937 within the gardens of wheelwright house).
The Church’s annual net income was £468 in 1884
The population was 299 in 1891.
Sutton joined Pocklington rural district in 1894
The income from a £ 2 a year bequest of Thomas Wilberfoss (d. 1722) for the poor out of either Browney Hill close or 2 a. of meadow in West carr was distributed in bread in the late 19th century
In the 19th century the manorhouse, close to the church, was often called Manor Farm, and the lords of the manor usually lived at Sutton Hall, or Sutton Farm, an isolated house south of the village.
There was an agricultural implement maker in Sutton in the late 19th century
A modus of 1s. 6d. was still paid, however, for the tithes of Bank island in the 19th century.
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