Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Strethul(l) l12(17),c.1210 Orm2 c.1261,1382 ib

• mora de Strethul(l) c.1245 CoLegh

• Strethul(l) more 1315 ib

• Strethul(l) Farm 1666 Orm2

• Stretehill(e) 1289 Court

• Stretthill(e) c.1310 CoLegh

• Strettehill(e) 1395 ib

• Strethill(e) 1325 ib

• Strethall 1673 ChRR

• Strathull 1289 Court

• Strettle Hall 1544 Mere 1677 CoLegh

• Strettle or Holmes Tenement 1676 ib

Etymology

'Street hill, hill on a main or Roman road', v. strǣt , hyll , mōr 1 , hall . The location of this place is to be sought in Mere, cf. terras et tenementas in villa et territorio del Mere iuxta Rouesthorn scilicet hameletton ' dict ' Strethull 1392CoLegh (Misc 523). It is associated with the Hulme family cf. Alexander Hulme of Strethull 1587 (17) MidCh, Strettle or Holmes Tenement heretofore in the possession of George Holme 1676CoLegh (Misc 546). Hulmebarns infra is a possibility. This location (101–722827) on the Knutsford–Warrington road, a mile north-west of the crossroads at Mere, might reinforce the suggestion of antiquity made by Street Field in High Legh 50supra as to that road, if the allusion is not to the Roman road, 'Watling Street', at Mere. Cf. Strettelegh 61infra . Streethill (s ) Green 55infra in the adjoining township, Millington, could be considered, from its having the same name, were it demonstrable that this part of Millington had belonged to Mere, and if in villa et territorio comprehends outlying or detached parts of the township and manor of Mere.