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Sutton-in-Ashfieldis a market town inNottinghamshire, England, with a population of 36,404 in 2021. It is the largest town in the district ofAshfield,[2][3]four miles west ofMansfield, 2 miles (3 km) from theDerbyshireborder and 12 miles (19 km) north ofNottingham.

The area was first settled in the Saxon times and the Saxon suffix "ton" means "an enclosure or fenced in clearing".[4]The town appears in theDomesday Bookin 1086 as "Sutone". There are also documents from 1189 showing that Gerard, son of Walter de Sutton, gave twobovatesof land and the church at Sutton toThurgarton Priory.

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