Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for STRETTON

STRETTON, a chapelry in Penkridge parish, Stafford; 3 miles SW of Penkridge r. station. It has a post-office under Stafford. Rated property, £2,641. Pop., 273. Houses, 54. S. Halland S. House are chief residences. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £86.* Patron, Lord Hatherton.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Penkridge CP/Ch/AP/Tn       Stretton Ch/CP       Staffordshire AncC
Place: Stretton

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