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East Sutton | |
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![]() Pleasure House, the former home of Alice Keppel, mistress of King Edward VII | |
Location within Kent | |
OS grid reference | TQ827495 |
Shire county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Maidstone |
Postcode district | ME17 |
Dialling code | 01622 |
Police | Kent |
Fire | Kent |
Ambulance | South East Coast |
UK Parliament | |
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 opened as a Borstal in 1946, and is now a prison and Young Offenders Institution for females, situated in a manor house, located just outside the village. [2]
King Edward VII used to visit the village for liaisons with his mistress, Alice Keppel at Pleasure House, on the border with Sutton Valence.