Main features are the packhorse bridge over the Potton Brook, the adjacent ford, and the Grade I listed All Saints' Parish Church.
Landscape Natural England has designated the area as part of The Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire Claylands (NCA 88).
Central Bedfordshire Council has classified the local landscape as Dunton Clay Vale.
The limited woodland cover and incomplete or unhedged roads reveal an open, mostly flat or gently sloping landscape.
To the west alongside the road to Deepdale are the woodlands of Millhouse Fen and Waterloo Wood, and a more recent plantation is north of the village at Pegnut Hill.
The lower lying land to the south-west and around Potton Brook is loamy and sandy with naturally high groundwater and a peaty surface and texture.
The higher land alongside the B1040 Biggleswade Road and on to the golf courses has a sandy texture and is freely draining and slightly acid.
The village centre and areas to the south and east have lime-rich loamy and clayey soils with impeded drainage.
[9] John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, son of King Edward III, held the manor of Sutton in the 14th century.
A large earthen mound surrounded by a moat, in Sutton Park, is said to be the site of his manor house.
[10][11] Sutton was the birthplace of General John Burgoyne the British army officer, politician and dramatist best known for his role in the American War of Independence.
[12][13] Local Enclosure Acts allowed the major landowners in the area to reorganise their widely separated landholdings.
One source states that it was situated on an important wool trade route to the towns of Bedford and Dunstable.
[17] However, another source disputes this and is of the opinion that the bridge's origins lie with the creation of Sutton Park and the relocation of the village.
[18] Previously in private hands, Bedfordshire County Council assumed responsibility for the bridge in 1941.
Sutton is part of Potton ward for elections to the Central Bedfordshire Unitary Authority.
Now in North East Bedfordshire, the elected member is Richard Fuller of the Conservative Party.