Little Sutton, Chiswick

Little Sutton area on Ordnance Survey map, c. 1880. Little Sutton is top centre; Kew Bridge and Strand-on-the-Green top left; Chiswick House and Gardens top centre right, and Old Chiswick top right. Grove House and its Park are centre left between the river and the railway leading to Barnes Railway Bridge. A broad strip beside the river is marked as marsh; much of the peninsula is shown as orchard (arrays of dots) or open fields.

Little Sutton was one of the four constituent medieval villages of Chiswick, in what is now West London, and the site of a royal manor house, Sutton Manor, later Sutton Court. The great house was accompanied by a small hamlet without a church of its own.

The manor was used by four kings of England, Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, and Henry VI, and Mary, Oliver Cromwell's daughter, lived there. The name survives in local street and house names.


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