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Stretton

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Stretton may refer to:

People

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Places

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England

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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

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Derbyshire

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Herefordshire

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Leicestershire

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Rutland

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Shropshire

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Staffordshire

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Warwickshire

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Australia

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Queensland

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

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