title: Stretton
text: # Stretton
  
  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 Junction
  * 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
  