Stretton
Appearance
Stretton may refer to:
People
[edit]- Stretton (surname)
- (Arthur) Stretton Reeve (1907-1981), English clergyman
Places
[edit]England
[edit]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
[edit]Derbyshire
[edit]Herefordshire
[edit]Leicestershire
[edit]Rutland
[edit]Shropshire
[edit]Staffordshire
[edit]Warwickshire
[edit]Australia
[edit]Queensland
[edit]The place in Australia is named after George Stretton, a 19th-century Englishman.
Other uses
[edit]- 11626 Church Stretton (an asteroid)
- Stretton, a novel by Henry Kingsley