[2] Prior to becoming a possession of Shrewsbury Abbey, the manor of Sutton was recorded in the Domesday Book as belonging to Wenlock Priory.

[citation needed] On the edge of Sutton Farm, on entering Shrewsbury from Much Wenlock, is Weeping Cross roundabout.

This again dates back to mediaeval times, and is where the poor in the surrounding countryside left their dead for the monks to give a Christian burial.

[5] Archaeological evidence of Neolithic occupation dating back before 2,000 BC of a religious form, was discovered in 2017 in the grounds of the church, making it Britain's oldest place of worship.

[citation needed] The majority of Sutton Farm is a housing estate built in the 1960s, but much older properties existed nearer the Column, and towards the Mere.

In 2007 Shrewsbury Town returned to Sutton Farm area at the South-West end of Oteley Road to establish their New Meadow stadium.