Sutton-in-Ashfield

Sutton-in-Ashfield is a market town in Nottinghamshire, England, with a population of 36,404 in 2021. It is the largest town in the district of Ashfield, four miles west of Mansfield, 2 miles (3 km) from the Derbyshire border and 12 miles (19 km) north of Nottingham.

For demographic purposes Sutton-in-Ashfield is included in the Mansfield Urban Area, although it administratively forms part of the separate council district of Ashfield, which is based in Kirkby-in-Ashfield. To the north is Teversal, Skegby and Stanton Hill.

The area was first settled in the Saxon times and the Saxon suffix "ton" means "an enclosure or fenced in clearing". The town appears in the Domesday Book in 1086 as "Sutone".

Sutton-in-Ashfield like Mansfield were part the land of Edward the Confessor and later the land of William the Conqueror upon the Norman Conquest in 1066.

Edward the Confessor and William the Conqueror were also the lord of the manor house of Sutton in Ashfield. In the 16th century the former manor house was passed unto James Hardwick, the brother of Countess of Shrewsbury Bess of Hardwick. On the death of her brother Bess passed the manor house unto her daughter Mary Talbot.

There are also documents from 1189 showing that Gerard, son of Walter de Sutton, gave two bovates of land and the church at Sutton to Thurgarton Priory.

Sutton-in-Ashfield was home to what was the largest sundial in Europe. It was located in the middle of Portland Square, adjacent to the Idlewells Shopping Centre and Sutton Community Academy. The sundial was unveiled on 29 April 1995 and was removed in late 2024

Sutton-in-Ashfield Town Hall was opened in 1889, and later served as a cinema, before becoming the Regency Dance Centre.