Sutton Bonington
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Sutton Bonington is a village lying along the valley of the River Soar in the Borough of Rushcliffe, south west Nottinghamshire, England. It is close to the border with Leicestershire and Derbyshire, and in fact its postal address is Loughborough, Leicestershire.
The parish covers some 2200 acres and includes the hamlet of Zouch. The population is about 1,600, not including the students at the University of Nottingham Sutton Bonington Campus, who bring the total to over 2,000 in term time.
Originally, Sutton and Bonington were two settlements, probably going back to Anglo-Saxon times (the names derive from South Town and Buna's Town). In the Middle Ages the two villages gradually grew together along the edge of the flood plain of the River Soar to make one long, narrow village. Zouch is an example of a small canal settlement, though there was a mill there long before the Soar was made navigable.
The number 5 bus runs from Sutton Bonnington to Loughborough.
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