Stretton

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Stretton may refer to:

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England[edit]

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[edit]

Derbyshire[edit]

Herefordshire[edit]

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Rutland[edit]

Shropshire[edit]

Staffordshire[edit]

Warwickshire[edit]

Australia[edit]

Queensland[edit]

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

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