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Archaeologia Cantiana - Vol. 55 -1942 page 3
The Suttons by Gordon Ward, M.D., F.S.A.
old settlement called Mundelingeham" (B.C.S.
190). This cannot refer to Little Mongeham itself and there can hardly
be any doubt that it was East Sutton which was then acquired by the
Abbey. We do not know whether there was a homestead in the area at this
time but, if there was not, we may feel reasonably certain that the
Abbey speedily provided one and named it as the South Farm of Little
Mongeham. It seems to have been part of the Mongeham as described in
Domesday Book, i.e. a subordinate section of that manor. |
because Sutton Church was given to
the Priory of Rochester by Gundulf and the Manor was presented to the
Knights of St. John before the year 1200. |
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