Little Sutton, Lincolnshire

Little Sutton

Crossroads in the parish
Little Sutton
 Little Sutton shown within Lincolnshire
Population 121 (2001 census)[1]
    London 85 mi (137 km)  S
Civil parishLittle Sutton
DistrictSouth Holland
Shire countyLincolnshire
RegionEast Midlands
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town SPALDING
Postcode district PE12
Dialling code 01406
Police Lincolnshire
Fire Lincolnshire
Ambulance East Midlands
EU Parliament East Midlands
UK ParliamentSouth Holland and The Deepings
List of places
UK
England
Lincolnshire

Coordinates: 52°46′41″N 0°08′49″E / 52.778°N 0.147°E / 52.778; 0.147

Little Sutton is a small civil parish, containing a few farms, situated between the much larger parishes of Long Sutton and Sutton Bridge, in Lincolnshire, England.

Geography

The A17

For Parliamentary, County, and District elections it is taken together with its bigger sibling, Long Sutton. Purely parish matters are dealt with by a Parish meeting.[2] On South Holland District Council, it is part of the Long Sutton ward, with Lutton and Tydd.[3] At the 2001 census, 100% of the parish was white, with 87% describing themselves as Christian.

The parish boundary with Long Sutton stretches as far north as Yellow House. West of Maze Farm (outside the parish) it meets Sutton Bridge. It follows Hospital Drove southwards, crossing Woad Lane, past Common Farm. It crosses Bridge Road, the former A17, then further south crosses the busy A17 close to where the pylon line crosses. As Hospital Drove, the boundary meets Tydd St Mary at the South Holland Main Drain. At the A1101 bridge over the drain, it meets Long Sutton, and follows the A1101 Wisbech Road northwards. For 300 metres, it follows Woodward's Lane eastwards, then passes northwards across the A17, west of Hope House. At Hundreds Lane, it passes northwards along the west side of the Premier Foods factory.

Food production

Premier Foods factory

Premier Foods have a factory on Bridge Road. Premier Foods uses this address (with a Long Sutton address) for most of its products. The factory uses around 16,000MWh of electricity a year. It makes Fray Bentos pies, and has canning production of baked beans, vegetables, puddings and meat. It employs over 600 people. The plant is referred to as their Long Sutton plant.

The factory was acquired by Hillsdown Holdings in 1981, and was used to can vegetables. In 1990 Hillsdown Holdings became HL Foods Ltd, becoming Premier Foods in November 2002.

In December 2001, when known as Premier International Foods, food scientists at the plant created the world's first 'chips in a can' meal, costing 99p each. The team was headed by Dr Malcolm Crouchman. The items were marketed as Omelette, Chips 'N' Beans and Beef Grill 'N' Chips.[4]

History

The civil parish is contained within the religious parish of St Mary, Long Sutton.

References

  1. Parish statistics
  2. "Little Sutton parish meeting". South Holland district council. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
  3. "Long Sutton ward description" (PDF). South Holland district council. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
  4. Spalding Guardian

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Monday, January 06, 2014. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.