Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• on Suðtune c.1030 YCh7

• Sudtunen 1086 DB

• Sudton(a) 1086 DB 1131–3 YCh61

• Sutuna, Sutona 1132 Fount 1136–45 YCh62–3

• grangiam de Sutuna 1145 Fount

• Sutthone c.1140 Vyner

• Sutton(a), Suttun(a) 1132–40 Fount 1155 YCh76 1467 WillY

• grangiam de Sutton 1156 Fount

• Sutton Grainge 1602 PRRip

Etymology

'South farmstead', v. sūð , tūn ; the reason it is called 'south' is not clear, but it may be in relation to Norton Conyers YN 219 some 3 miles to the north-east. It was a grange of Fountains Abbey (v. grange ).