East Sutton
 | This article needs additional citations for verification. (February 2025) |
| East Sutton | |
|---|---|
 Pleasure House, the former home of Alice Keppel, mistress of King Edward VII | |
  East Sutton Location within Kent | |
| OS grid reference | TQ827495 |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Maidstone |
| Postcode district | ME17 |
| Dialling code | 01622 |
| Police | Kent |
| Fire | Kent |
| Ambulance | South East Coast |
| UK Parliament | |
East Sutton is a parish approximately 6 miles south-east of Maidstone in Kent, England. East Sutton is small in number of dwellings but relatively large in area: the parish has a women's prison, a council estate of 16 houses and the Grade I listed 13th-century St Peter's and St Paul's Church. The population is included in the civil parish of Sutton Valence.
HMP East Sutton Park opened as a Borstal in 1946, and is now a prison and Young Offenders Institution for females, situated in a manor house, located just outside the village.[2]
King Edward VII used to visit the village for liaisons with his mistress, Alice Keppel at Pleasure House, on the border with Sutton Valence.
References
[edit]- ^ "Location of Weald of Kent". parliament.uk. Retrieved 21 February 2025.
- ^ "East Sutton Park". Ministry of Justice. Archived from the original on 13 October 2011. Retrieved 21 February 2025.
External links
[edit]- East Sutton website Archived 13 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine
Places adjacent to East Sutton | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ||||||||||||||||
 | This Kent location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |