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 Old English ( or , or ), 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 developed from the languages brought to Great Britain by Anglo-S ...

"stræt" and "tun"). Of the seventeen places in England, all but two are situated on a

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

, 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 is a small village and civil parish in Derbyshire, England. The population of the civil parish as at the 2011 Census was 525. It is near the towns of Clay Cross and from Alfreton on the A61. The nearest waterways are the River Amb ...

** Stretton railway station

Herefordshire

* Stretton Grandison *

Stretton Sugwas Stretton Sugwas ( ) is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England, about northwest of Hereford. The parish also includes the hamlet of Swainshill. The population of this Civil Parish at the 2011 census was 505. In 1087 the village w ...

Leicestershire

* Stretton en le Field * Little Stretton, Leicestershire **'' Stretton Magna'' / '' Great Stretton'' ** Stretton Hall, Leicestershire

Rutland

Stretton, Rutland Stretton is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the county of Rutland, England, just off the A1 road (Great Britain), A1 Great North Road. The population of the civil parish was 770 at the 2001 census, including Thistleton ...

Shropshire

* Stretton Westwood *

Church Stretton Church Stretton is a market town and civil parish in Shropshire, England, south of Shrewsbury and north of Ludlow. The population in 2011 was 4,671.

All Stretton All Stretton is a village and a now separate Civil parishes in England, civil parish in Shropshire, England. Much of it is covered by a Conservation Area (United Kingdom), Conservation Area. Geography All Stretton lies about a mile to the nor ...

** 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

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) *''Stretton'', a novel by

Henry Kingsley Henry Kingsley (2 January 1830 – 24 May 1876) was an English novelist, brother of the better-known Charles Kingsley. He was an early exponent of muscular Christianity in his 1859 novel '' The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn''. Life Kingsley ...