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Stretton, Rutland

Village in Rutland, England

Summary

Village in Rutland, England

Field	Value
country	England
official_name	Stretton
region	East Midlands
static_image_name	Stretton Rutland St Nicholas.jpg
static_image_caption	St Nicholas' Church, Stretton
area_footnotes
area_total_sq_mi	3.09
population	770
population_ref	2001 Census
population_density	249 /sqmi
os_grid_reference	SK948160
coordinates
post_town	OAKHAM
postcode_district	LE15
postcode_area	LE
dial_code	01572
constituency_westminster	Rutland and Melton
london_distance	88 mi SSE
unitary_england	Rutland
lieutenancy_england	Rutland

Stretton is a village and civil parish in the county of Rutland, England, just off the A1 Great North Road. The population of the civil parish was 770 at the 2001 census, including Thistleton and increasing to 1,260 at the 2011 census. The ecclesiastical parish of Stretton shares the same boundaries and is part of the Rutland deanery of the diocese of Peterborough.

Geography

The principal landmark is a large modern prison, HMP Stocken. Stocken Hall itself, dating principally from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, was used as the prison farm from the 1950s until the 1980s and is now converted into apartments. Of the seventeen Strettons in England, all but two are on Roman roads, and Stretton in Rutland is no exception, being situated on Ermine Street.

The civil parish extends along the east side of the A1 up to the edge of Morkery Wood. It also extends at this point to the west side of the A1, as far south as Hooby Lane, and includes Hooby Lodge.

The B668 (for Oakham) meets the A1 at a junction, improved in 1971 when the A1 was dualled to Great Casterton.

History

The village's name means "farm/settlement on a Roman Road" in Anglian and Old English. The village is situated on Ermine Street.

The pub is called the Jackson Stops (the name of an estate agent). It was previously called the White Horse but was for sale for so long with the estate agents' sign outside that it is now officially called by their name.

The Ram Jam Inn (former Winchelsea Arms), situated on the Great North Road next to a service station, is just inside the parish of Greetham. It was bought by the then-owner of Stocken Hall, Major Charles Fleetwood-Hesketh (1871–1947), in the 1920s, who transformed it into a well-known roadside inn. He was also a Deputy Lieutenant of Lancashire, as was his son, Roger Fleetwood-Hesketh, who became a Conservative MP.

Geno Washington & the Ram Jam Band took their name from the inn in the 1960s.{{cite journal

The parish church is dedicated to St Nicholas. Rev. Edward Bradley (rector of Stretton, 1871–83), who wrote as Cuthbert Bede, and who paid for its restoration, is buried in the churchyard.

References

Sources

Extensive historical notes

References

"A vision of Britain through time". University of Portsmouth.
(2001). "Rutland Civil Parish Populations". Rutland County Council.
"Parish Council details".
"Civil Parish population 2011". Office for National Statistics.
"Key to English Place-names".
"Ecclesiastical parish details: St Nicholas Church, Stretton".
{{DNBSupp. Thomas. Seccombe

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