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Sutton Bonington is a village and civil parish lying along the valley of the River Soar in the Borough of Rushcliffe, south west Nottinghamshire, England. The University of Nottingham has a 420ha site just to the north of the village: Sutton Bonington Campus.The parish covers some 2183acre and includes the hamlet of Zouch. The population is about 1,600,increasing at the 2011 census to 2,202, not including the students at the university campus who bring the total to over 2,200 in term time. The River Soar is the county boundary with Leicestershire and approximately 2mi to the northwest, in Leicestershire, is the large village of Kegworth. The nearest town is Loughborough, some 5mi by road to the south, and the nearest village is Normanton on Soar.HistoryOriginally, Sutton and Bonington were two settlements, probably originating in Anglo-Saxon times (the names likely derive from South farm and Buna's farm); Sutton was to the south of Bonington. In the Domesday Book of 1086 the villages were recorded as "Sudtone" and "Bonitone". The two villages gradually grew together along the edge of the flood plain of the River Soar to make one long, narrow village, which by 1340 had come by the name of "Sutton Bonynton".

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