Stretton may refer to:
People
edit- Stretton (surname)
- (Arthur) Stretton Reeve (1907-1981), English clergyman
Places
editEngland
editStretton 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
editDerbyshire
editHerefordshire
editLeicestershire
editRutland
editShropshire
editStaffordshire
editWarwickshire
editAustralia
editQueensland
editThe place in Australia is named after George Stretton, a 19th-century Englishman.
Other uses
edit- 11626 Church Stretton (an asteroid)
- Stretton, a novel by Henry Kingsley