Sutton Bonington

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Sutton Bonington
Main Street Sutton Bonington
Sutton Bonington shown within Nottinghamshire
Parish	Sutton Bonington
District	Rushcliffe
Shire county	Nottinghamshire
Region	East Midlands
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	LOUGHBOROUGH
Postcode district	LE12
Dialling code	01509
Police	Nottinghamshire
Fire	Nottinghamshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
European Parliament	East Midlands
List of places: UK • England • Nottinghamshire

Coordinates: 52°49′07″N 1°14′51″W / 52.81864, -1.24759

Sutton Bonington (pronounced /ˈsʌtən ˈbɒnɪŋtən/) 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.

Between 1982 and 2004 specialist car manufacturer GTM Cars used buildings in Trowel Lane as their factory and offices. Since their departure to Coventry these have been used by Talon Sportscars.