Sutton
The village is situated either side of the B1083 and includes the Sutton Hoo Estate situated above the River Deben.
Sutton Hoo is famous for being the location where Edith Pretty, the then owner, with Basil Brown, a local archaeologist, excavated mounds on the site in 1939 and found a ship burial believed to be the resting place of Raedwald, King of East Anglia (c625 AD).
Artefacts found there were gifted to the British Museum by Mrs Pretty. Facsimiles of these can be seen in the Visitors Centre run by the National Trust which now owns the estate.
The village has a pub – The Plough – and a church, All Saints, which was built in 1555 and refurbished, as were most of the churches on the Peninsula, in the 19th century.
Mrs Pretty is buried in the churchyard.
The villagers of Sutton built the Memorial Hall as their village hall in memory of those who died in the in the Second World War.
