Stretton may refer to:

People

Stretton (surname) Stretton is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Alan Stretton (1922–2012), Australian Army officer *Alan M. Stretton (born 1930s), Australian civil engineer *Amanda Stretton (born 1973), English racing driver and motoring journal ...

*(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 is a hamlet and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The small, rural parish also includes the hamlet of Wetreins Green (pronounced ''Wetrens'' or ''Wet-er-a ...

** Stretton Hall, Cheshire ** Stretton Lower Hall ** Stretton Old Hall **

Stretton Watermill Stretton Watermill is a working historic watermill in Stretton, Cheshire, England. It is owned and administered by Cheshire West and Chester Council. The mill is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* l ...

Stretton, Warrington Stretton is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Warrington, Cheshire, England. The parish includes the village of Lower Stretton. It is at the very southern tip of Warrington, about south of the town centre. It has a large hotel (Park Ro ...

**'' Lower Stretton'' **

RNAS Stretton (HMS Blackcap) Royal Naval Air Station Stretton (RNAS Stretton, also known as HMS ''Blackcap''), was an airfield situated in the village of Appleton Thorn, though named for the neighbouring village of Stretton, Warrington, Stretton, south of Warrington, in C ...

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 Stretton railway station was a railway station at Stretton, Derbyshire, England built by the North Midland Railway. History Stretton station was first opened in 1841 as Smithy Moor, a year after the line opened, but renamed later in 1841. It ...

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 Stretton en le Field is a small village and civil parish in the North West Leicestershire district of Leicestershire, England, about 7 miles/11 km south-west of Ashby de la Zouch, historically an exclave of Derbyshire. According to the 2001 ...

* Little Stretton, Leicestershire **''

Stretton Magna 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, a ...

'' / '' 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 Church Stretton railway station is a railway station serving the town of Church Stretton in Shropshire, England on the Welsh Marches line, south of Shrewsbury railway station; trains on the Heart of Wales line also serve the station. All trains ...

Little Stretton, Shropshire Little Stretton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Church Stretton, in the Shropshire district, in the ceremonial county of Shropshire, England. In 1961 the parish had a population of 80. Little Stretton became a civil p ...

Little Stretton Halt railway station Little Stretton Halt was a minor railway station on the Welsh Marches Line between Craven Arms and Church Stretton in Shropshire, England. History Opened by the independent Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway in 1852–53, the line through Little ...

* Stoney Stretton **'' Stretton Heath''

Staffordshire

Stretton, East Staffordshire Stretton is a large village and civil parish in Staffordshire, England. It is situated on the northern outskirts of Burton upon Trent and is now a suburb. The name is Old English and means ''Street Town'' derived from its location on the Roman ...

** Stretton and Claymills railway station ** Stretton Junction * Stretton, South Staffordshire ** Lapley, Stretton and Wheaton Aston **

Stretton Aqueduct Stretton Aqueduct is a short cast iron canal aqueduct between Stretton and Brewood, and near to Belvide Reservoir, in south Staffordshire, England. Designed by Thomas Telford and bearing his name plus its date of construction, 1832, it carri ...

** Stretton Hall, Staffordshire

Warwickshire

* Stretton Baskerville *

Stretton-on-Dunsmore Stretton-on-Dunsmore is a village and civil parish in the English county of Warwickshire. Its population in the 2001 Census was recorded as 1,143, rising slightly to 1,159 at the 2011 Census. In the 19th century the population was 634. The vi ...

* 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 Stretton is a southern suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Stretton had a population of 4,686 people. Geography Stretton is from the Brisbane Central Business District, and borders the suburbs of Calamvale, Sunny ...

Electoral district of Stretton Stretton is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. The district is based in the southern suburbs of Brisbane. It is named for the suburb of Stretton and also includes the suburbs of Calamval ...

Other uses

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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 ...