SUTTON COLDFIELD, a market-town of England, Warwickshire, on the slope of a hill, 7 miles N.N.E. of Birmingham. It is for the most part regularly laid out and well built; and it contains a handsome parish church, partly built by Bishop Vesey, in the sixteenth century, and containing some ancient monuments; a Roman Catholic chapel, a grammar-school, and several others; a public library, and a neat brick town-hall. South-west of the town lies the Coldfield, a bleak tract of 13,000 acres, stretching into Staffordshire; and to the north-west and west is Sutton park, a pasture-ground of about 3500 acres, given to the poor of Sutton by Bishop Vesey. There are no manufactories in the town; but many of the people are employed in the making of hardware in the vicinity, and within the limits of the parish there is a celebrated factory of music-wire. Pop. 4574.
SUTTON COLDFIELD
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