the village is its listing in the Domesday Book. Spelt Sudtone and Suttone the name is thought to mean "south farm". Sutton Castle was built c1220, though now an oval motte is all that remains. Unusually, the castle is a long way from the village and church. John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, son of King Edward III, held the manor of Sutton in the 14th century. A large earthen mound surrounded by a moat, in Sutton Park, is said to be the site of his manor house. It is now the 17th green of the John O'Gaunt golf course. Local tradition tells that the village was formerly hereabout but later relocated south to its present site. Sutton was the birthplace of General John Burgoyne the British army officer, politician and dramatist best known for his role in the American War of Independence. He lived with his family at Sutton Park. In 1741, the Sutton Enclosure Act was passed; the first Enclosure Act in Bedfordshire. Local Enclosure Acts allowed the major landowners in the area to reorganise their widely separated landholdings. This produced a larger estate for the Burgoynes. Sutton Park House was destroyed by a fire in 1825. It was subsequently re-designed in 1876. There are monuments to the Burgoynes in All Saints Church. The monument to Sir Roger, who died in 1679, is by Grinling Gibbons. The tomb of John Burgoyne (d.1709) is by Edward Stanton. The John O'Gaunt Public House was licensed in 1835 and created from three 18th-century thatched cottages. The Ordnance Survey map of 1900 shows a number of allotments in and to the east of the village centre. Packhorse bridge and ford The Packhorse bridge alongside the ford is a 13th-century double arched pedestrian bridge over Potton Brook, a tributary of the River Ivel. The bridge built from local sandstone is thought to be the only surviving one of its type in Bedfordshire. One source states that it was situated on an important wool trade route to the towns of Bedford and Dunstable. However, another source disputes this and is of the opinion that the bridge's origins lie with the creation of Sutton Park and the relocation of the village. Previously in private hands, Bedfordshire County Council assumed responsibility for the bridge in 1941. Repairs carried out in 1986 earned the council a Civic Trust award in 1988. All Saints' parish church The