Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Stretun(e) 1086 DB

• Streton(am) 1135–40 YChvi 1254 Pat 1293 QW

• Straton(a) 1090–1100,1100–8,1109–40,a.1129 YChvi

• Stretton(a) Wm2 Pat 1307 YDi,iii 12 YChvi 1147–53,1175–88 YI 1258

• Stratton(a) 1157 YCh354 1189 Ch 1308 FF 1218 RH 1276

• Stirton 1515 TestLds

• Styrton 1545 LS

• Sturton 1546 YChant 1567 FF

• Sturton Grange 1603 FF 1641 Rates

Etymology

'Farmstead near the street or Roman road', v. strǣt , tūn . The street is the Great North Road. On the spellings with Strat - and Stir -, Stur - cf. Phonol. § 16 and Stirton vi, 76infra .