Sutton Green is a semi-rural suburban or dispersed settlement and area of Metropolitan Green Belt, between Guildford and Woking, Surrey. Sutton Green neighbours Jacobs Well; part of its easternmost fields is in the flood risk area of the River Wey, being a purposeful long flood meadow as a consequence of the river's many channels and improvements such as the Wey Navigation which passes to the west then east of the main channel here. The south of the parish is a prominent terrace above a long meander of the Wey including Sutton Place itself. A low contour of this terrace and brief section, north, is ancient woodland. The land is mostly Historic Landscape, in shades, the centre-south, Ladymead Farm being red and adjoining Sutton Place, deep green. West of Sutton Green are farm-separated Prey Heath and Whitmoor Common that is a Surrey Wildlife TrustSSSI.
Administrative geography and local plan
As of the last 8 to 10-year review, the area is in a slightly redrawn Mayford and Sutton Green one-councillor electoral ward of the Borough. It is in the Woking South County division. There is a range of community facilities serving the local area including the Mayford Centre and the village hall; Local Plan policies resist the loss of community facilities unless there is no longer a need for the facility or where adequate alternative provision is made.
Schools
Two primary schools and an infant and junior school are approximately two miles from the centre in neighbouring areas; the closest later education provider is at approximately three miles, George Abbot School.
The original owner and possible architect was Sir Richard Weston a UK politician and courtier with another famous owner being J.Paul Getty, oil magnate and the patriarch of the Getty family who spent the last 25 years of his life at Sutton Place. The current owner is Alisher Usmanov, a Russian businessman.
In addition to the Anglican church, there is also a local Roman Catholic church, Holy Family. This started out holding services in the parish hall of All Saints Church. In 1977, the Catholic church built a hall of its own, where services were first held in August of that year. A new church building was constructed in 1988 and dedicated in March 1989.
