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East Sutton
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Pleasure House, the former home of Alice Keppel, mistress of King Edward VII
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East Sutton
Location within Kent
OS grid reference TQ827495
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Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Maidstone
Postcode district ME17
Dialling code 01622
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51°12′57″N0°36′57″E / 51.21583°N 0.61583°E / 51.21583; 0.61583

East Sutton is a parish approximately 6 miles south-east of Maidstone in Kent, England. East Sutton is small in number of dwellings but relatively large in area: the parish has a women's prison, a council estate of 16 houses and the Grade I listed 13th-century St Peter's and St Paul's Church. The population is included in the civil parish of Sutton Valence.

HMP East Sutton Park is a prison and Young Offenders Institution for females, situated in a manor house, located just outside the village.

King Edward VII used to visit the village for liaisons with his mistress, Alice Keppel at Pleasure House, on the border with Sutton Valence.


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