Long Sutton was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Sutone but its history goes back long before then; there are remains of Roman settlements spread across the Parish. In medieval times the agricultural land was owned by the Church. Later, in the days of the great estates, the village and most of the land to the west of the Parish was owned by the Duke of Devonshire. The land from Knole to the east was mainly part of the Ilchester estates. The farms leased by these estates were bought, often by the tenants, at the beginning of the last century.

The Parish has been touched by all the major national historic events. The Battle of Langport (or the Long Sutton Mercy as Cromwell was said to have called it) was fought within a few miles of the village. More recently the War Memorial was erected to pay tribute to those who lost their lives in two World Wars, but those who remained at home also contributed by taking in refugees from the cities, joining the Home Guard or working to make the nation more self sufficient with regard to food production.

Agriculture was always the main industry until quite recently but quarrying stone for building and for production of lime also provided employment here as in most surrounding villages. Some women made gloves at home from materials provided by the many glove manufacturers in the area. Now the leisure and tourist industries employ more people than the farms and gloving as a cottage industry has ceased. The trend over the last few decades has been for residents of the Parish increasingly to work in the nearby towns or from home. Although the pattern of employment has altered, the population of the Parish has remained remarkably constant for the last two hundred years at between 800 and 1,000. However the number of dwellings required to accommodate the approximate 800 residents has increased with their expectations of space and privacy from 183 which existed in 1891 to 358 houses today.

The population of the Parish has never been more mixed, socially and economically, than it is today. Incomers, long term residents, retired and working people all combine to form a caring and dynamic society which is determined to maintain all that is good about the Parish.