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, all but two are situated on a Roman road, 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 railway station

Herefordshire

  • Stretton Grandison
  • Stretton Sugwas

Leicestershire

  • Stretton en le Field
  • Little Stretton, Leicestershire
  • Stretton Magna / Great Stretton
  • Stretton Hall, Leicestershire

Rutland

  • Stretton, Rutland

Shropshire

  • Stretton Westwood
  • Church Stretton
  • All Stretton
  • 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, 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 asteroid)
  • Stretton, a novel by Henry Kingsley

See also

  • Stratton (disambiguation)
  • Stratten, surname