Stretton
Major Settlement in the Parish of Stretton
Historical Forms
- (æt) Strættune c.1002 ASWills c.1100
- Stratune 1086 DB
- Strattun, Stratton Hy2 Portland 1235 FineR
- Stratton near Essoure 1310 FF
- Stratton in Scarvesdale 1331,1415 Cl
- Stretton(e) Hy2 Beau 1226 ClR 1253 FF
- Stretton(e) in Scaruedale 1269 Ass
- Stretton(e) iuxta Assheoure 1330 Ass
- Stretton(e) in Scaruesdale 1330 ib
- Great Stretton 1328 Banco
- Magna Stretton in Scaruesdale 1332 FF
Etymology
'Farm on the Roman road (Ryknield Street)', v. strǣt , tūn ; cf. Stretton Hall infra 308. For the descriptive forms cf. Ashover and Scarsdale Hundred supra 190 and 187.