Sutton Bonington (/ˈsʌtən ˈbɒnɪŋtən/) is a village and civil parish lying along the valley of the River Soar in the Borough of Rushcliffe, south-west Nottinghamshire, England.

Sutton Bonington Hall's gardens and parkland are set between the two original settlements and create a gap in the built-up area, and each part continues to have its own pub and parish church.

The most recent significant development are houses built on the former rectory gardens near St Anne's Church, again enlarging the Sutton part.

He died in 1936, without children (the title thereby becoming extinct), and was buried in the family plot at Marlepit Hill cemetery.

[1] The university campus was originally the Midland Agricultural and Dairy College, which formed in the first decades of the 20th century.

The campus has steadily grown over the decades (the main part is now approximately 20 hectares) and in 2006 the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science opened.

The village boasts a number of small shops, a Coffee shop, a post office, a village hall and library,[7] a primary school,[8] a doctor's surgery and two pubs: The Anchor (in the Bonington part) and The King's Head (in the Sutton part).

Aside from the main village, the parish contains a number of outlying areas of settlement, including the university campus and the hamlet of Zouch.

Opposite the Hotel on Station Road are two further Listed buildings within the parish (in addition to the 25 in the village) at Sutton Fields – the House and its Lodge.

Junction 24 of the M1 motorway is only 2.5 miles (4.0 km) away, near Kegworth, and the East Midlands Airport is also nearby to the west.

The Skylink bus route[16] serves the village and the university campus, with regular buses running between Nottingham city centre and Loughborough, including stops at Kegworth, the Airport, Long Eaton and Beeston.

[17] The long-distance footpath, the Midshires Way, passes through the parish, running from West Leake to Kegworth along Melton Lane and Station Road.

[18] The River Soar, which runs through Zouch and then along the western boundary of the parish, is canalised and is well used by small watercraft.

The parish comes within the Soar Valley electoral district for purposes of electing a councillor to Nottinghamshire County Council.

Since 1908[25] Sutton Bonington has had an official (Met Office listed) automatic weather monitoring station situated on the university campus.