Stretton Explained

Stretton may refer to:

People

• Stretton (surname)
• (Arthur) Stretton Reeve (1907-1981), English clergyman

Places

England

Stretton means "settlement on a Roman Road" (from the Old English "stræt" and "tun"). Of the seventeen places in England, all but two are situated on a Roman road, the exceptions being Stretton Westwood and Stretton en le Field.

Cheshire

• Stretton, Cheshire West and Chester
  • Stretton Hall, Cheshire
  • Stretton Lower Hall
  • Stretton Old Hall
  • Stretton Watermill
• Stretton, Warrington
  • Lower Stretton
  • RNAS Stretton (HMS Blackcap)

Derbyshire

• Stretton, Derbyshire
  • Stretton railway station

Herefordshire

• Stretton Grandison
• Stretton Sugwas

Leicestershire

• Stretton en le Field
• Little Stretton, Leicestershire
  • Stretton Magna / Great Stretton
  • Stretton Hall, Leicestershire

Rutland

• Stretton, Rutland

Shropshire

• Stretton Westwood
• Church Stretton
  • All Stretton
  • All Stretton Halt railway station
  • Church Stretton railway station
  • Little Stretton, Shropshire
  • Little Stretton Halt railway station
• Stoney Stretton
  • Stretton Heath

Staffordshire

• Stretton, East Staffordshire
  • Stretton and Claymills railway station
  • Stretton Junction
• Stretton, South Staffordshire
  • Lapley, Stretton and Wheaton Aston
  • Stretton Aqueduct
  • Stretton Hall, Staffordshire

Warwickshire

• Stretton Baskerville
• Stretton-on-Dunsmore
• Stretton-on-Fosse
  • Stretton-on-Fosse railway station
• Stretton-under-Fosse

Australia

Queensland

The place in Australia is named after George Stretton, a 19th-century Englishman.

• Stretton, Queensland
  • Electoral district of Stretton

Other uses

• 11626 Church Stretton (an asteroid)
• Stretton, a novel by Henry Kingsley

See also

• • Stratton (disambiguation)
• Stratten, surname