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Stretton

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Stretton may refer to:

People

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

Derbyshire

Herefordshire

Leicestershire

Rutland

Shropshire

Staffordshire

Warwickshire

Australia

Queensland

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

Other uses

See also