Sutton-in-Craven / Sutton-in-Ayrdale

This Sutton appears identified in the Domesday survey simply as "Sutun" under the lordship of one Ravenkel in 1066, but having passed on to the lordship of King William in 1086 [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE0044/sutton/] [accessed 31 December 2022]: "It had no recorded population (sometimes the case for large towns, as well as abandoned settlements)" and is described as "Possibly waste (ambiguous) in 1066." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE0073044148] notes: "Church, 1869 by W H Crossland [...] A mature Gothic Revival design with detail generally of late Geometric character [...] font of classical character". The entry for this church in the Parish Council site [http://www.suttonincravenpc.org.uk/churches.html] [accessed 1 January 2023] notes: "The white marble font and the pulpit was presented by Walter Bairstow." The same source mentions a Baptist church here as well: "In the Church Book dated 1780 it is written that members of the Church met for worship in an old barn which had been converted into a meeting house in the tenth year of the reign of Queen Anne A.D 1711. Some time then in the year 1711, the name Baptist was applied to this non-conformist Church in Sutton. 2011 marks the 300th anniversary of the Baptist faith to our village. From a property up the High Street, to the magnificent buildings erected on the site by Holme Bridge, and replaced by a modern hall." What it does not mention, however, is a the use of a nearby brook [cf. ImagesArea] that has been used since the early-1700s to baptise people from this and nearby communities, as a plaque on the bridge above the brook testifies.