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Survey of English Place-Names

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Stretton on Dunsmore

Major Settlement in the Parish of Stretton on Dunsmore

Historical Forms

  • Stratone 1086 DB c.1126 Burton
  • Stratton 1159 P 1535 VE
  • Stratton super Dunnesmor 1262 FF
  • Stratton on Dunsmore 1535 VE
  • Strattun 1200 Cur
  • Stretton(a) c.1190 BM 1235 Fees 1291 Tax
  • Stretton(a) super Dunnysmore 1285,1396 FF
  • Dounesmor 1313–25 Ipm 1345 BM 1389 ADi 1444 ADii

Etymology

v. stræt , tun . For Dunsmore v. supra 12. “This Village takes its name from the situation upon that old Roman way called the Fosse …being by the common people called Street ” (Dugdale 28).

Places in the same Parish