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