Great Sutton and Little Sutton were mentioned in a single entry in the
Domesday Book of 1086 as
Sudtone, under the ownership of the canons of
St Werburgh's Abbey. The village was part of the parish of
Eastham in the
Wirral Hundred. in 1866 Great Sutton became a separate
civil parish, on 1 April 1950 the parish was abolished and merged with Ellesmere Port. The population was recorded at 153 in 1801, 203 in 1851 and 397 in 1901. In 1931 the parish had a population of 662. From 1974 to 2009 it was in
Ellesmere Port and Neston district. Great Sutton is a residential area close to the
A41 road that links
Birkenhead and
Chester. The White Swan Inn
public house dates back to about 1850. The Church of St John the Evangelist on Chester Road (A41) was consecrated in November 1879. The village was struck by
an F1/T3 tornado on 23 November 1981, part of the record-breaking nationwide tornado outbreak on that day. ==Geography==