Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Stratone 1086 DB 1215 P

• Straton' 1186(p),1190 1267 Pat 1368 Wyg

• Stratona 1202 ChancR

• Strattun' 1155,1156 P

• Stratton' 1159,1160 1230,1242 1429 Fine 1435 Cl

• Strattone 1156,1159 RBE 1195 P

• Strattona 1173,1175,1178 ib

• Strettun' 1157 P

• Stretton 1183,1184 1329 Ipm 1330 Wyg

• Strettona c.1250 Rut

• Strettone 1306,1357 Wyg

• ~ Magna 1275 Coram 1305 LRoll 1579

• Magna ~ 1283 Dugd 1301,1302 Pat 1314 Cl 1344 Pat

• Much ~ 1467×72 ECP

• Great ~ 1610 Speed

Etymology

'The farmstead, village on the Roman road', v. strǣt , tūn ; with the later affix ME  muche (with loss of -el from OE  mycel). Note also MLat  magna 'great, large'. With neighbouring Little Stretton, located on the Roman Via Devana (Gartree Road) which extends south-eastwards from Leicester. Only the church remains standing amid a large area of medieval earthworks of the former village.