Stretton is a small, dispersed village in South Staffordshire, England. It is situated just north of the A5 road near to the village of Lapley.
The A5 is Watling Street, a notable Roman Road, and another Roman road passes through Stretton from Mediolanum (Whitchurch), forming a junction with Watling Street near to the bridge over the River Penk. (On the other side of the river was the now-deserted Roman settlement of Pennocrucium.) It is the village's situation on the road from Mediolanum that gives it its name, the Old English for Street Town ("street" meaning a paved or Roman road). Stretton Bridge today carries Watling Street over the Penk.[1]
Stretton Hall is in the village.
The Shropshire Union Canal passes to the west of the village, where there is a Stretton Wharf. The Stretton Aqueduct carries the canal over the A5 road.
The civil parish is called Lapley, Stretton and Wheaton Aston.