Stretton is a large village and civil parish in

Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, the West Midlands Cou ...

, England. It is situated on the northern outskirts of Burton upon Trent and is effectively a suburb of that town. The name is

Old English Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, Anglo ...

and means '' Street Town'' and comes it being on the

Roman road Roman roads ( la, viae Romanae ; singular: ; meaning "Roman way") were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the Roman state, and were built from about 300 BC through the expansion and consolidation of the Roman Re ...

called Ryknild Street. The population of the parish at the 2001 census was 8,355,Neighbourhood Statistics
Stretton CP headcount increasing to 8,611 at the 2011 Census. The River Dove which forms the border between Staffordshire and Derbyshire flows past the eastern side of the village. The

Trent and Mersey Canal The Trent and Mersey Canal is a canal in Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Cheshire in north-central England. It is a "narrow canal" for the vast majority of its length, but at the extremities to the east of Burton upon Trent and north of Middle ...

also passes through. Stretton was served by a railway station (

Stretton and Claymills railway station Stretton and Claymills railway station is a disused railway station in Stretton, near Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire. History The station was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway in 1901. The line itself dated back to 1848, and fro ...

) which was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway on 1 January 1901. There was also a

Stretton Junction 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, ...

. The station and the North Staffordshire Railway line have now gone. Today the principal transport link is the

A38 road The A38, parts of which are known as Devon Expressway, Bristol Road and Gloucester Road, Bristol, Gloucester Road, is a major A-class trunk road in England. The road runs from Bodmin in Cornwall to Mansfield in Nottinghamshire. It is long, mak ...

which passes through. It is home to the sports and social clubs o
Stretton Eagles
and Stretton Wanderers. It also shares a nature trail with the neighbouring village of Rolleston on Dove. Schools includ
Fountains High SchoolFountains Primary School
an
William Shrewsbury Primary School
The parish church of Stretton is St Mary's, part of the Diocese of Lichfield. The

Dovecliff Hall Dovecliff Hall (alternatively known as Dove Cliff Hall or Dovecliffe Hall) is a large Georgian country house in Stretton, East Staffordshire, England which is now a country house hotel. It is a Grade II listed building. The house is built in two ...

Hotel is a

Grade II listed In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...

country house to the north of the village.

Notable people

Irven Edwards Irven David Edwards (19 November 1907 – 14 February 1973) was an Anglicanism, Anglican priest in the mid 20th century. Edwards was born at Stretton, East Staffordshire, the son of John Edwards, at one time a prebendary of Lichfield Cathedral, an ...

(1907 in Stretton – 1973) an Anglican priest, a prebendary of Lichfield Cathedral and Dean of Wells 1963-1973

References

* Ordnance Survey mapping

External links

Stretton Community Website
Villages in Staffordshire Civil parishes in Staffordshire Borough of East Staffordshire {{Staffordshire-geo-stub

Notable people

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